Random House cashes in on Slumdog Millionaire success
The book on which the award-winning British film Slumdog Millionaire is based has in one month sold more copies for its publisher Random House than it did in the years since its release in 2006.
By Amanda Andrews writing in The Telegraph, 16 Feb 2009

The book's success is part of a growing trend in which books have gained dramatically in popularity after being successfully adapted for the big screen.

A past book-to-film success story was the paperback of The Da Vinci Code, which sold more than one million additional copies following the release of the movie, which starred Tom Hanks.
The original Slumdog book by Vikas Swarup, (pic left by David Levene), which was called Q&A, sold a total of 150,000, while the film's tie-in edition, which was released on January 2, has already sold 175,000 copies, with at least half of these sales in the UK.

The film won seven BAFTAs and has Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. If it wins, another rise in sales is anticipated.

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