Friday, August 17, 2012

Amazon: Hunger Games Has Out-Sold Harry Potter

Alleluia! A series of books with originality and great storytelling is finally more popular than the unoriginal and very good, but not awesome Harry Potter series. 
That's right, Amazon announced today that the Hunger Games trilogy has not outsold the entire Harry Potter series.
"Interestingly, this series is only three books versus Harry Potter's seven," Amazon's editorial director tells the Wall Street Journal
"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."
"This must mean that people are finally starting to enjoy great books, instead of just-ok ones." added me.

Amazon's figure includes Kindle sales of the books, which is a big boost for the Hunger Games, which is also the most-borrowed book in the Kindle library. 
The Potter books are all available as ebooks as well, but that's only been the case since March. 

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