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Bestseller posts record sales of Da Vinci Code
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Posted on Apr 08 2006
Sales of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code continues apace in the CNMI with the recent release of the paperback version of the book.
Bestseller Bookstore store manager Marlyn Pery disclosed that their store has sold over 532 paperbacks of the Dan Brown novel.
“It’s already a record, especially here in the CNMI,” said Pery, adding that the four branches of Bestsellers on Guam have sold more than the CNMI record.
She said the Saipan branch never fails to sell copies of the book every week.
Brown’s book, according to wire reports, has already sold more than 40 million copies worldwide in hardcover and continues to sell well three years after publication, also helped in part by an endless series of controversies, most recently a copyright lawsuit in London.
Pery said the bookstore is expecting an uptick in sales of the book weeks before its film version hits the silver screen on May 19.
“It would surely even add more sales after filmgoers see the movie,” she added.
Bestseller Bookstore had sold out 18 of the hardbound version of the book. Pery said these are the collector’s item type of the books sold at higher prices than the paperback version.
Early reports also said that more than 500,000 copies of Brown’s historical thriller were sold in its first week of paperback release late March.
Last year, Bestseller held a book launch of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment of the Potter series, coinciding with the book’s midnight release worldwide. In less than an hour, Bestseller sold 60 copies of the book during the launch, and later in the afternoon, staff Rowena Coloma confirmed that the bookstore had already sold over 150 copies of the hardbound copies of the book.
