'Lost Symbol' Sales Over 1.1 Million at BookScan Outlets
-- Publishers Weekly, 9/23/2009 10:57:00 AM
Amid the numbers rolling in about sales of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the novel sold 1,163,000 copies at the U.S. outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan from its release last Tuesday through September 20; BookScan covers about 75% of sales. Random House reported yesterday that Symbol has sold more than 2 million English-language copies worldwide in its first week on sale. The other big released last Thursday, True Compass, sold 170,000 copies through last Sunday.
