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Pan Macmillan's iPhone app version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy spent the weekend at number four on the App Store's paid book apps chart, the publisher has claimed.
The app, created with Missing Ink Studios to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the book's first publication, was ahead of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, which slipped to number six. The other four books in the Hitchhiker series are also said to be climbing up the top 100.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy enhanced app comes with special content and extra features including a YouTube video, a Twitter feed by the gloomy robot Marvin and audio excerpts from the radio scripts.
"Douglas Adams was the first person in the UK to own an Apple Mac; he was a digital guru in his
own time and was always committed to making his work available across a range of media," said Pan Mac digital director Sara Lloyd.
"When the App store launched we just knew we had to make The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy our first enhanced app. It felt like exactly the kind of thing Douglas would have loved."