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Dan Brown sequel, The Lost Symbol, sells a copy a second
24 Sep 2009The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, sold more than one copy every second in its first five days of release, the publishers said today.
The conspiracy thriller moved 550,946 copies in the UK between last Tuesday and Saturday, according to official data from Nielsen BookScan, comfortably beating the previous record for sales of an adult hardback novel, held by Thomas Harris's Hannibal, which has sold 299,000 editions since it was published in 1999.
Sales have been buoyed by retailers slashing the book's cover price - readers have splashed out just under £4.6 million on it, giving an average sale price of £8.27, just over half the £18.99 recommended retail price.
In all 13p in every pound spent in UK book retailers last week went towards a copy of The Lost Symbol.
Despite this early success, the book has a long way to go to match the astonishing success of The Da Vinci Code, which has sold 81 million copies around the world, and is the UK's biggest-selling paperback of all time.
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Is it true that ElevenTheMovie.com is going to be the lost symbol sequel finale and that all the actors in it have 11 letters in their name ?
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Korban
- Korban, London, 07/10/2009 17:00
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superb book. suggest ted ,from london tries more than 50 pages before passing comment.
rory , corl
- Rory Conway, cork , ireland, 24/09/2009 16:51
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Wish my supermarket would knockout malt whisky at half price.
DB's latest tome? In my view (after reading fifty pages), unadulterated tripe for those with a reading age of eleven years.
- Ted, London, 24/09/2009 13:24
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