'Lost Symbol' Sales Top 2 Million
Sep 22, 2009
Doubleday announced today that since The Lost Symbol went on sale last Tuesday it has sold more 2 million copies of the English language edition worldwide. The total includes hardcover, audio and e-book formats. Doubleday said Symbol sales were the biggest one-week sale in parent company Random House history for a single title. Doubleday said that in addition to setting one-day sales records for RH in the U.S. Canada and the U.K., the novel set first-day sales records at accounts in over 60 territories around the world.
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