Upcoming release of Harper Lee's second book boosts 'Mockingbird' sales
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Sales of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are rising in advance of the planned release of her second book–one she wrote before Mockingbird that features Scout as an adult.
Lee’s Go Set a Watchman will be released on July 14, putting Mockingbird back on best-seller lists, the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) reports.
HarperCollins Publishers shipped 369,000 hardcover and trade paperback copies of Mockingbird in a little less than four months, compared to just 59,000 copies for the same period last year. Meanwhile, the company holding mass paperback rights to Mockingbird saw sales increase by 73 percent during that period to 165,000 copies.
To Kill a Mockingbird wasn’t available as an e-book until July 2014. In nearly a four-month period this year, HarperCollins sold 155,000 e-book copies.
