With the long awaited release today of Dan Browns novel The Lost Symbol, bookies Paddy Power Sports are predicting global sales of between 2-3 million copies during its first week of release, smashing the previous record set with Browns last novel; the Da Vinci Code.
Paddy Power Sports are also offering odds of 6/5 for The Lost Symbol to be this weeks NY Times bestseller and, closer to home, odds of 8/11 to top Easons best seller list this week. Betting is also available with Paddy Power Sports on when the now customary movie adaptation of the novel will be released in cinemas. A 2012 worldwide release is the 9/4 favourite.
Paddy Power Sports said
Dan Brown has to be the most bankable author in modern literature and were expecting first week sales of The Lost Symbol to break records all over the world
THE LOST SYMBOL
Global Sales in the First Week
4/1 Under 1 million
5/1 1 to 2 million
5/2 2 to 3 million
9/4 3 to 4 million
7/2 4 to 5 million
3/1 Over 5 million
Number One Bestseller
6/5 NY Times number one bestseller in the first week
8/11 Eason number one bestseller in the first week
When will the film version of The Lost Symbol premiere?
9/2 Before 2011
5/2 2011
9/4 2012
3/1 2013
6/1 2014
5/1 After 2014
