The Hunger Games Trilogy Surpasses Harry Potter Books on Amazon: Which Series Do You Like Better?
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2012/08/19 20:10:51
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Last week, Amazon announced that Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games trilogy has surpassed J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in combined print and eBook sales. It is now the online retailer’s bestselling book series ever. This feat is especially impressive considering that the Hunger Games trilogy is much shorter than the Harry Potter saga and has been around for significantly less time.
"Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time," said Amazon Editorial Director Sara Nelson. “Customers love these books and all three titles are consistently on our Top 10 lists in both print and Kindle formats, and ‘The Hunger Games’ is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”
This news came right before the highly anticipated release of The Hunger Games DVD on August 18. The film adaptation of the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire, will again star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and has a tentative release date of November 22, 2013 according to Lionsgate.
So, SodaHeads? Which series do you like better: The Hunger Games or Harry Potter?
"Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven, and to achieve this result in just four years is a great testament to both the popularity of the work and, we think, the growth in reading digitally during that time," said Amazon Editorial Director Sara Nelson. “Customers love these books and all three titles are consistently on our Top 10 lists in both print and Kindle formats, and ‘The Hunger Games’ is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.”
This news came right before the highly anticipated release of The Hunger Games DVD on August 18. The film adaptation of the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire, will again star Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and has a tentative release date of November 22, 2013 according to Lionsgate.
So, SodaHeads? Which series do you like better: The Hunger Games or Harry Potter?
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Top Opinion
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Harry Potter
+20I really like them both, but Harry Potter is such a different world, where you get into the history of each character and get involved with every little drama. It also shows immense character growth and development in even the smallest of roles in perfect and realistic correlation to events that take place. You are taught the real values in life, such as bravery, loyalty, the sense of what's right and wrong and how to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. The Hunger Games is well written and has a really interesting plot with a delicate view of the politics of a dictatorship in a dystopia, but it just isn't the same. It hasn't inspired an entire generation, it cannot invoke the same level of emotion that J.K. Rowling managed and while I love it and know many people that love it as well, The Hunger Games will not continue to inspire generations to come.
And it's not like people could so conveniently buy Harry Potter in the nineties without even getting of their asses like they can now with The Hunger Games...
We saw our very excited History teacher dressed as Harry Potter on a broom. It was both awkward and awesome.
The HG? I just popped into Kmart on my way home from work, it took like 3 minutes to get the entire series lol.
I'm still waiting for my acceptance letter to Hogwarts c;
The Hunger Games story is just beginning !!!!!
However, the Hunger Games/Catching Fire/ Mockingjay trilogy was smooth and easy and quick to read, and on my schedule, that won out.
The Hunger Games, to me, wasn't anything that special.
i also love things that have come out of hp like the harry potter puppet pals, and a very potter musical. so funny :D
But whatever
Im guessing it sold more because the movie came out and exposed new readers ooooor its ashorter series or harry potter's fanbase hit a plateau who knows