will the lost symbol be a juggernaut like the da vinci code?
Dan Brown’s latest novel, “The Lost Symbol,” broke sales records in Barnes and Noble and is listed as the No.1 best seller on Amazon in the first 24 hours of its release. The first-day reports are in and it looks like Dan Brown, with his new book “The Lost Symbol,” hasn’t lost his touch. According to The New York Times, Barnes&Noble reported Tuesday that in the first 24 hours of its release, sales of “The Lost Symbol” hit a record high in the adult fiction category. Dan Brown’s new book features Robert Langdon, the professor who starred in the enormously successful “The DeVinci Code” as well as its predecessor, “Angels and Demons.” The Robert Langdon novels have been a gold mine for publisher Knopf which printed five million copies of “The Lost Symbol” straight off the bat. The numbers for “The Lost Symbol” from BookScan, representing 70 percent of all retail book sales, are expected next week. Sources: http:/
One thing for sure: There is nothing subtle about the launch of a book by Dan Brown. Today, six years after “The Da Vinci Code” sold 80 million copies in 44 languages, Brown’s latest, “The Lost Symbol” goes on sale. The question is not: Will this book sell? Expectations are far larger than that. This time around what everyone’s wondering is: Will Dan Brown save book publishing? (In other words, will Brown readers, after rushing to their local bookstores to snap up “The Lost Symbol,” simultaneously pick up enough other books to make this a positive selling season?) But there’s another question floating around the blogosphere today as well and that is: Will Dan Brown revive the Freemasons? In “The Lost Symbol,” Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (star of “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons” as well) is recruited to find a legendary Masonic treasure. The international, fraternal organization of the Freemasons – who have been around since the 1600s and once boasted celebrity members
