"This proves that the ebook market wants to be able to buy major new titles as soon as they are released. "We averaged over one download of the new Dan Brown novel every minute from release," said commercial director Neil Jewsbury. Readers were also keen to snap up the ebook version of the title: Waterstone's said the digital edition was its fastest selling ebook ever. Waterstone's said that The Lost Symbol, starring symbologist Robert Langdon, had broken sales records across the chain, becoming its fastest selling hardback adult novel of all time. Children's authors tend to garner higher first day sales: last summer the final novel in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, sold 1.3m copies on release in the US. Knopf said that demand for the book meant it would be printing an extra 600,000 copies of the book on top of its initial North American print run of 5m copies, while in the UK, Transworld is also going back to the printers, having initially printed one million copies of the novel.īrown's first day sales of one million copies are nonetheless dwarfed by the final Harry Potter title, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which sold 2,652,656 copies in its first 24 hours in the UK alone, according to NielsenBookScan. To say that he tends to go over the top is putting it mildly, but his books are always a good read."We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America," said Knopf chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta. I'm keeping my fingers crossed if Dan Brown does portray the Smithsonian Institution. But what would Smithsonian staffers like to see if a bit of pulp fiction were set at the Institution? "I would hope that it wouldn’t portray the Smithsonian in a negative light," says Richard Stamm, curator of the Castle collection, "and that it would be more accurate than either Vidal’s book or Night at the Museum in describing the place. Dan Burstein-who authored Secrets of the Code, a guide to Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code-thinks he can foretell the events of The Lost Symbol based on clues in the dust jackets of Brown's previous books and some hardcore detective work, which he recently described in New York magazine. So for now, we only have our imaginations to puzzle out what a thriller set at the Smithsonian would be like. However, whether or not the Smithsonian does indeed play a role in the book is purely speculative and our sources at the Institution are respectfully keeping all knowledge of Brown's narrative under wraps. Some of you may have gotten a glimpse of the facility-and some of the critters therein-in this segment from the Today show. However, here is a small insider scoop: In April 2008, Brown toured the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Maryland and viewed several wet specimens. Much ado has been made of the extreme secrecy surrounding the book and the millions of printed copies being kept under lock and key. Mass media is all abuzz with the advent of Dan Brown's latest intrigue-laden potboiler, The Lost Symbol.
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