Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2009
After years of painful waiting, Doubleday finally has Dan Brown’s follow-up to mega-best-seller The Da Vinci Code and has announced plans to publish it on September 15. The book, titled The Lost Symbol (not The Solomon’s Key, as it was originally called), will have an initial print run of five million, which according to the press release is the largest print run Random House has ever ordered.
According to a January 2008 article from The Wall Street Journal headlined “The Wait of the World’s on Dan Brown,” Doubleday was initially hoping to publish Mr. Brown’s book in 2005, but it kept being delayed. Bob Wietrak of Barnes & Noble was quoted as saying that retailers were all “constantly asking” about the book’s status, while literary agent (and former head of Time Warner Books) Larry Kirschbaum was in there saying that Doubleday had no choice but to get on their knees and pray.
It is widely believed that if Mr. Brown had finished the book sooner, Doubleday might have met a different fate during last winter’s downsizing and reorganization of Random House, which saw the unit folded into Sonny Mehta’s Knopf division and its longtime publisher, Steve Rubin, reassigned to another job in the company.
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2009
Publishing in general and Random House in particular should receive a much-needed boost this fall when RH’s Doubleday imprint releases The Lost Symbol, the long awaited next novel from Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown. Random is setting a five million-copy first printing for the book, which will be released in the U.S. and Canada September 15.
Ever since Da Vinci became a worldwide bestseller in 2003 there has been much speculation about when Brown would deliver his next book. After a number of false reports, Ron Howard, director of the Da Vinci movie, said earlier this year that Brown’s next book would come out sometime in 2009. In a statement, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group chairman Sonny Mehta said Symbol “is one of the most anticipated publications in recent history, and it is well worth the wait.”
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2009
The sequel to the smash mystery “The Da Vinci Code” should make it onto the big screen in a hurry as symbologist Robert Langdon’s adventures have already been made into two hit films, industry press reported Tuesday.
Monday his publisher said US author Dan Brown’s latest book “The Lost Symbol” would be published in the United States in September with a first run of five million.
