Fountain of Knowledge

So many books nowadays are being written as trilogies in the first place. I just finished The Hunger Games, only it didn't really end, not in any kind of satisfying way. It's book one of a trilogy, and the ending leaves the MC at the train station before she reunites with her family and friends; she's still in trouble with the government and not sure who she loves. Several mysteries about how she won the hunger games are left unresolved. This book wasn't meant to be read alone--it'd by like leaving Frodo in the spider's nest or something. This seems like a technique calculated to sell as many books as possible.

And I guess it worked, because our library system shows the sequel having about a hundred and fifty holds!

As far as one successful book that spawns sequel after sequel--those get old real fast. I've heard publishers insist the author keep churning them out, no matter how lame they are or how much the author pleads. (Remember Stephen King's Misery?) YA books are the worst. My kids had me reading them Mossflower Sequels until I could just about do it with my eyes closed.