What did the publisher think ‘The Name of the Rose’?
His publisher gave Eco an advance for 3,000 copies but 2 to 3 million copies of the novel were sold in the U.S.A. alone. The total sale raise up to 10 to 15 million copies. It speaks its popularity and taste of the people. His publisher thought that it was a serious novel. And in a country ‘Where nobody has seen or cathedral or studied Latin. Still the novel had got a good success