Dan Brown’s ‘The Lost Symbol’: Why is the book biz so scared?

There’s been much fulminating in the books world lately that The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s eagerly anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, is bad for publishing. This week, former Publisher’s Weekly editor Sara Nelson even dubbed Brown a “Book Killer.” The theory is that Brown’s readers will only troop into stores (or go online) starting Sept. 15 to buy Symbol, probably at a deep discount, and they won’t buy anything else. Worse, the critics argue, the hubbub surrounding Symbol will drown out media coverage of other books — and eat into sales of those books too. So publishers have supposedly been shuffling the release dates of various titles so they don’t have to go head-to-head with the Dan Brown juggernaut.

It doesn’t take a Harvard symbologist to see that this is mostly sour grapes and a whole lot of hooey.

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The Lost Symbol – Dan Brown’s New Novel

The Lost Symbol is a new novel that Dan Brown has worked on overt the past 5 years. Initially the working title was The Solomon Key. The Lost Symbol will be the third book to involve the character of Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon, after 2000′s Angels & Demons and 2003′s The Da Vinci Code^.

I think you all red at least one of Dan Brown’s book, and it may be that it has been the Da Vinci Code. If not I am almost sure, you have seen the movie. I am anxious to get to read this new book.

For more information see The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown.