Dan Brown's 'The Lost Symbol' Breaks Records

There's reading a-happening!

Dan Brown, the author of such blockbusters as The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, has a new novel out and it's breaking sales records left and right. In just its first day on shelves, The Lost Symbol sold over one million copies.

The book's publisher, Knopf Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc., claimed it had broken single-day sales records on Tuesday after selling over a million hardback copies across the U.K., Canada and the United States.

"We are seeing historic, record-breaking sales across all types of our accounts in North America for The Lost Symbol," said Sonny Mehta, editor in chief of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Symbol arrives as a lifesaver for the publishing and book-selling industry, as many companies have seen plummeting profits lately. Consumers are buying less books from retailers and more from online or alternative media, like games or music.

In the novel, readers are led once again on a puzzle-solving, multi-riddled adventure with the famed Harvard Symbologist and religous iconographer Robert Langdon. This time however, the action takes place in crypts beneath the nation's capitol, where Langdon faces off against The Freemasons.