Dan Brown’s ORIGIN produced first-week sales numbers that would be strong for almost any author but Dan Brown. The book moved over 145,000 hardcovers through outlets tracked by Bookscan, and according to people at Penguin Random House internal data shows about 100,000 ebooks — mostly pre-orders — sold in the same period. The first-week US hardcover sales for Brown’s last book, INFERNO, published in May 2013, were approximately 369,000 through Bookscan outlets. (Inferno sold 6 million units in English in calendar 2013, according to Bertelsmann.) Knopf Doubleday spokesman Paul Bogaards told us, “ORIGIN had the biggest opening week of any novel published […]
