Brown’s latest book looks to be ‘big, big’

Dan Brown’s first novel since 2003′s The Da Vinci Code is triggering more speculation than any book since the end of the Harry Potter series.

The Lost Symbol (Doubleday, $25.95) will be released Sept. 15 with a first printing of 5 million copies. That’s the largest print run since the 12 million copies of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007.

If Brown’s last novel — which has sold more than 80 million copies and been read by an estimated 480 million people in 50 languages — “was big, then the new one will be big, big,” said Barnes and Noble’s Sessalee Hensley, citing “pent-up demand.”

She said 50 stores asked for advance copies: “I had to explain there aren’t any.”

Just the novel’s cover, released by the publisher last month, has been enough to trigger Internet debates about the symbolism of images of the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, seen through a keyhole on the book’s spine.

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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 By Dan Brown Release Date

The Lost Symbol is the latest novel by Dan Brown, which will bring once again Robert Langdon back into our lives, with a new story in this new compelling thriller.

The release date  is set on September 15, 2009, a date Britain’s Daily Mirror is calling “the biggest book launch in history.”

The Lost Symbol is being published by Random House,  with an initial print run between 5 to 6.5 million copies, which will be the largest first printing in publisher Random House’s history.

An electronic edition of the novel (for Kindles and Sony Readers) will be released the same day. “Traditionalists see this as yet another nail in the coffin of the book, while forward-thinking insiders insist it is a shot of adrenaline for a flagging industry,” Britain’s Daily Mail succinctly commented.

Anyone who is familiar with The Da Vinci Code would be well advised to pre-order a copy of The Lost Symbol as copies are sure to sell out quickly.

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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.

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