Lost Symbol’s ebook sales hit 5% of total

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By Paul Biba

Here are the figures as reported by Doubleday, itself:

[Doubleday spokesperson] Herz did say that around 5 percent, or 100,000 copies, of “The Lost Symbol” were sold as e-books. Doubleday released the digital edition at the same time as the hardcover despite industry worries that e-sales might take away business from the more expensive paper text.

Amazon.com reported last week that first-day sales for “The Lost Symbol” were higher on its Kindle e-reader than in hard cover. E-books, a fast-growing portion of an otherwise slow market, have been estimated at anywhere between 1 percent to 5 percent of total sales.

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