Scholastic Increases First Printing of Mockingjay, the Final Book of The Hunger Games Trilogy, to 1.2 Million Copies

 Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, announced today that it has increased the first printing of Mockingjay, the final book in the nationally bestselling , The Hunger Games trilogy to 1.2 million, from a previously announced 750,000 copies.

First published in September 2008, Hunger Games was an instant bestseller, appealing to both teen readers and adults. It has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 93 consecutive weeks since publication, and there are more than 2.3 million copies of the first two books in the trilogy in print in the U.S. and Canada to date (more than 1.4 million copies of The Hunger Games since September 2008 and more than 900,000 copies of its sequel Catching Fire in less than one year since its September 2009 publication).

Mockingjay, which is embargoed, will be published in the U.S. and Canada on August 24, 2010 (August 25, 2010 in the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand).
The trade paperback edition of The Hunger Games is scheduled for U.S./Canadian publication on July 3, 2010, with a first printing of 500,000 copies.