Scholastic announced that they have sold more than 450,000 print and ebook copies of Suzanne Collins’ MOCKINGJAY in the first week on sale, and have gone back to press for another 400,000 copies. Print sales in outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan were a little over 350,000 copies in the first five days of sale, through August 28.
That easily ranks among the biggest opening weeks this year, well above even the opening sale for even Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest in May. (Little, Brown Children’s said they sold 350,000 units of Stephenie Meyer’s The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner in the first two days on sale.)