Lionsgate, Scholastic Teaming to Let New Fans Read First Chapters of The Hunger Games
Posted 09.01.11 by Chris
The Hunger Games has sold more than a million copies and is available in 26 different languages — meaning, the odds are not in your favor to find a high schooler who hasn't read the book. Nonetheless, with September being National Literacy Month, Lionsgate and Scholastic are partnering to get more young people reading. Along with Scribd, the studio and publisher are releasing the first two chapters of Suzanne Collins' book.
Newcomers, and fans alike, can read and share the previously released first chapter along with the exclusively released second chapter of The Hunger Games using a new application built in partnership with Scribd, the world’s leading social reading platform. The app lets users read the chapters within Facebook, as well as share them with their friends on Scribd, Facebook, and Twitter.
And if that weren't already enough motivation, any fan that reads The Hunger Games in the Scridb reader application throughout the month will be entered in "Read a Chapter, Win a Library," a contest to win a classroom library of books for one of the public schools served by DonorsChoose.org.
The Hunger Games, as fans well know, is the story of Katniss Everdeen, who sacrifices herself to be be a tribute in the deadly televised event in which 12 boys and girls fight to the death. The books and the movie, currently in production, already have a rabid fanbase.
So if you're a fan, why don't you introduce The Hunger Games to someone? Do it for the kids.
Next Showing: The Hunger Games opens March 23