Doubleday reports to us that Dan Brown’s INFERNO sold 1 million units in the US and Canada in its first five days on sale, through Saturday, in print and ebook sales combined. The company did not break out the distribution between formats, but the Nielsen Bookscan count would indicate that ebooks slightly outsold print versions. The actual first printing was 2.3 million copies, so Doubleday should have ample print inventory for now. In 2009, Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL sold “more than 2 million units” in the first week on sale, but that was inclusive of the UK edition, which sold […]
