‘Da Vinci’ still hot in paperback

Yes, there are still people who haven’t read “The Da Vinci Code.” But the number seems to be shrinking.

Dan Brown’s international sensation has sold about 1.4 million copies in the first month of its U.S. paperback release, a big number for any book and astonishing for a novel that’s already sold more than 40 million in hardcover.

“There are more than 300 million people in the United States, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there,” joked Russell Perreault, vice president and director of publicity for Vintage Books and Anchor Books, paperback imprints of Random House Inc.