Ludhiana Newsline reports that after the Da Vinci Code movie was banned in India’s northern state of Punjab, sales of the book have shot up again, almost doubling in one store. Dinesh Sharma of Book Cafe speculates that it will continue to boost sales.
Meanwhile, today’s issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer says that copies of the book and pirated DVD’s of the movie were burned in Manila yesterday.
What with everything I’ve read in the past few years, the burning of books is starting to seem almost commonplace. I don’t think much of it, except perhaps to take note and read the book if I haven’t already. But movies – and illegally pirated copies, at that?
Am I the only one who thinks it’s strange?
