Oh Yes! Fifty Shades Of Grey Becomes An All Time Best Seller

Sold of 5.3 million copies? wOw!! That is the best that a book could ever reach. In spite of being quoted as “mommy porn” and scoffed for “abysmal writing” by some wacky critics, Fifty Shades of Grey did not stop people from snapping the tale of a virginal female protagonist, who falls in love with a billionaire who is fond of bondage love making. Fifty Shades of Grey is the first book belonging to the series of 3 erotic novels from a notable laureate, EL James.

“EL James”

To boggle your minds, this erotic work of fiction, revolving around a successful sadomasochistic man and his girlfriend, has already surpassed the sales of all seven Harry Potter books on Amazon. The whooping 5.3 million figure includes, 3.8 million published books and over 1.5 million eBooks. Well, in terms of hardcover and paperback sales, Fifty Shades still lags behind the Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, which owns the record of selling 4 million prints in UK.

Talking about the sequel books, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, they too are not lagging behind their predecessor. The respective sales figures reach out to 3.6 million and 3.2 million, thereby taking the combined sales figure of the trilogy to over 12 million in UK. As far as the Global effect is concerned, the records mention a sale of over 40 million copies, which is still far afield from the Harry Potter series score of 450 million.

“Fifty Shades Trilogy” Photo: Carol Kaliff / The News-Times

EL James (49), a mother of two, lives in west London and hardly finds her way to the reporter’s camera. The only racy detail available about her is that she is fond of eating Nutella directly from the container. Now getting back to the topic, with Fifty Shades of Grey about to reach the masses through the Silver Screen, Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson have already illustrated their will to do the lead role, with Ian Somerhalder willing to play the bondage loving man.

Well, it is up to the top management and Universal pictures (right holders of the film series) to decide the cast. Till then, you can concentrate on your nail biting and in case, you haven’t grabbed your copy yet, please show a lil’ more enthusiasm and fetch your copy now. Well, the fact that the book still rules the best-seller charts for the 16th running week should be well enticing for you to fetch your copies.