Scholastic Announces ‘The Hunger Games’ Trilogy Reaches 50 Million Copies in Print/Digital
Today Scholastic announced new print numbers for ‘The Hunger Games’ Trilogy by Suzanne Collins, with the book now having over 50 million copies in print and digital format in the United States.
Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, today announced the first update since March 28, 2012, of U.S. figures for Suzanne Collins’s bestselling The Hunger Games trilogy. The series has grown steadily since fall 2008 and The Hunger Games has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two hundred consecutive weeks/more than three years. In fact, The Hunger Games is only the second book in the USA Today bestseller list’s history to spend sixteen consecutive weeks in the number one spot. Following the release of the record-setting “The Hunger Games” movie, new readers have continued to discover the trilogy, while others have rushed to the sequels to find out what happens next. As of today, Scholastic has more than 50 million copies of the original three books in The Hunger Games trilogy in print and digital formats in the U.S. (more than 23 million copies of The Hunger Games; more than 14 million copies of Catching Fire; and more than 13 million copies of Mockingjay).
Source: MarketWatch
Wow!That’s amazing and awesome! I love the hunger games!
It’s kinda cool to think “I contributed to the increase of the books reaching 50 million copies” It’s amazing! (not considering I bought all of the books twice)
@NEWS – Heheh, I admire your dedication!
What a terrific achievement though, those numbers are incredible! And that’s only in the United States as well – I wonder what the worldwide figure is?
Now they just need to release nice collectors editions for Catching Fire and Mockingjay as well and put them all together
@tash– yeah, i was just going to say that i wish we could have international numbers as well. i don’t know that i’ve seen much of an interest from people here even now, but at least the books are being sold. (i didn’t see them in bookstores until about a month after the movie came out, i swear).
The HG trilogy was the first thing I loaded up on my shiny new Kindle Fire that I got for Christmas. Then I started posting on fan forums with you fine folks and I was done for. I’m all in now.
@carla – Much the same experience here, I heard about the books and that there was a film coming out so I ordered them online (about $10 each including shipping for UK copies) and read them and fell in love. Then in the weeks before the movie came out copies and copies of them were everywhere! Even now when I walk into K-mart/Target/Big W they still have heaps of them.
It’s funny because apparently heaps of people at work told me they’d been hearing all about The Hunger Games and what was it (and then subsequently became sick of me talking about it!), but apart from that I really haven’t found anyone locally who has read the books, so thank goodness for this site lol (getting involved with it as a staffer has been awesome for me)
@SPM – Hehe, pretty much the same timing/experience for me! Totally off topic, is the Kindle Fire good?? They sell the normal boring ones here but not the fire, have been wondering if I should try importing one.
I’m speechless! THG is catching fire!!!!
@Tash – I asked for a “boring” Kindle for Christmas so I wouldn’t have to lug heavy books on my commute to and from work. But the in-laws surprised me with an upgrade to the Fire, and I really like it because I can do so much on it. It’s easy to use, seems to have a lot of space, and I like the graphics. The only drawback I can see is that I don’t have the option of getting Web access through my cell service, like my MIL does with her iPad, so I don’t have Internet during my commute. But that’s fine because I can read or play games or listen to music. (I have kind of a short attention span so I have to change it up.)
@SPM – Heheh, I’m somewhat the same, read a few chapters of something, play a game, go back to the book. I’m just not sure how much I would actually use one.. Hopefully they’ll start selling them here and I can try before I buy.