The Lost Symbol goes on sale breaking new records
Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Lost Symbol, went on sale on Tuesday and has already broken a number of publishing records.
Over 300,000 copies have been sold in the UK meaning that more copies have been shifted in its first 36 hours of release than any other adult hardback novel.
And it seems that The Lost Symbol is reaching new hights across the globe.
“We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for The Lost Symbol,” said Sonny Mehta, editor in chief of US publisher Knopf Doubleday.
Similarly, Amazon.com reported very strong sales of the digital version of the book with spokesman Andrew Hardenere confirming that “the biggest surprise was that, despite sustained, strong physical book sales, yesterday [Tuesday] we saw the Kindle edition outsell hardcover editions on the book’s release day.
This was reflected by a spokesman for Sony who claimed that The Lost Symbol set a single day record for ebook sales, outselling competitors by more than ten times on Tuesday.
The Lost Symbol is the follow up to the succesful novel The Da Vinci Code which was published in 2003 and has gone on to sell over 81 million copies worldwide. The latest release is set in Washington DC and again features the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon who this time has to come to grips with the secret world of the Freemasons.
Waterstones are currently offering a 20% discount on the digital version of the book meaning that it can be purchased for just £9.49. For more information or to download your copy, simply visit www.waterstones.com.
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