Dan Brown

...and the Deathly Hallows two years ago. But Pullman, who has himself sold about 15,000,000 books, says that although Brown's work has captured the popular imagination, it has little literary merit. The author, who spent much of his...

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...JK Rowling, James Patterson and Dan Brown. "It took three days for the latest Dan Brown to be widely available illegally," says Alicia Wise, digital consultant to the Publishers Association. Cory Doctorow But it's also everything from...

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...to over 17 hours - also became the book chain's fastest selling audio download ever. Brown has also already beaten the previous hardback adult novel sales record, which was set by Thomas Harris's Hannibal, which sold 299,000 copies over...

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...not compare with the best selling books of the last decade. That list is dominated by Dan Brown and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who have entered the market more recently. Brown's thriller The Da Vinci Code, which tops the absolute...

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...Doubleday. The book is the third in Brown's series -- first is Angels and Demons; second is The Da Vinci Code -- to follow the wits and wiles of professor Robert Langdon as he uncovers clues hidden in the artifacts of history. Despite the...

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...one-day sales record for adult fiction. The success of the Dan Brown's latest is a boost to publisher Knopf Doubleday and booksellers, which have endured sliding sales in the midst of the recession. Booksellers have anxiously awaited a...

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...and vegetables and Asda shifted 18,000 copies by 4pm. Brown's publisher, Transworld, is so convinced of The Lost Symbol's success it has printed 1m copies, the most in its history. In a display of "event publishing" usually reserved for...

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...a seller as JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But although there is a definite ringing of the tills, there was no manic dash to own Brown's latest hardback. Mike Angill, duty manager at Waterstone's Bookshop, in the Hayes,...

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