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50 Shades of Gray #1 Selling Kindle Book of All Time
The Daily Mail ^ | 6-26-12 | Deborah Arthurs

Posted on 06/27/2012 7:15:22 AM PDT by trailhkr1

Fifty Shades Of Grey has become the number one best-selling Kindle book of all time at Amazon.co.uk, it was revealed today. Despite the trilogy only being published in March this year, the racy international best-sellers - dubbed 'mummy porn' - have sold over one million copies in the online store's Kindle department, while author EL James has become the bestselling author of the year on the site as a whole.

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1 posted on 06/27/2012 7:15:25 AM PDT by trailhkr1
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To: trailhkr1

Pretty funny that a book I’ve never heard of is the best seller of all time.


2 posted on 06/27/2012 7:16:17 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

You’ve never heard of the Bible?


3 posted on 06/27/2012 7:17:31 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1254 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: cuban leaf
best seller of all time.

Best seller of Amazon United Kingdom Kindle

sort of subset of "all time"

4 posted on 06/27/2012 7:18:45 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: null and void

Best selling KINDLE book. Not best selling book.


5 posted on 06/27/2012 7:19:14 AM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: justice14

Best selling Kindle book, on Amazon, in the UK.

Biggest frog, across the pond...


6 posted on 06/27/2012 7:22:30 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1254 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: nascarnation
Best seller of Amazon United Kingdom Kindle sort of subset of "all time"

Whoops I missed that....you are right.. but just give it time to be the US #1 Kindle seller.

7 posted on 06/27/2012 7:22:47 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: cuban leaf

JUST IN TIME.....

First saw it last week when looking up “The Amateur” and it was “surprisingly” a H*U*G*E bestseller.

Can’t have people talking about TWO big conservative best-sellers coming out.....


8 posted on 06/27/2012 7:23:02 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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—You’ve never heard of the Bible?—

I thought of that when I posted. But I think you know what I meant. ;-)


9 posted on 06/27/2012 7:26:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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its soft core porn IIRC

written by a woman for women

kinda like the “romance” novels of the 80’s and 90’s


10 posted on 06/27/2012 7:27:20 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (How do you say Arkanicide in Kenyan?)
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To: null and void

Exactly. Not best selling all time.


11 posted on 06/27/2012 7:27:29 AM PDT by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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To: nascarnation

Don’t ask me what caused me to type “of all time”. I meant “for such a long time”.

My bad.


12 posted on 06/27/2012 7:27:57 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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Ugh. I've always thought that fanfic was the lowest form of creative writing, precisely because there is so little creativity involved. Characters, settings, backstory and plot are already in place, you just add your gratifying little coda someplace. Anyone who calls fanfic "literature" deserves to be clubbed like a fur seal. And now a fanfic-a lemon to boot-is a huge bestseller. Gah!

(Before the FR fanfic squad arrives to pillory me, I am a former author of SF fanfic. All of it was self-published in dead-tree APAs long before Al Gore invented the Internet. Good thing, too. They were rank awful personified.)

13 posted on 06/27/2012 7:28:54 AM PDT by jboot (Galt by default.)
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My first novel was #1 on the Kindle Free Library for a couple of hours during a free-run promotion last March.

For most of my five-day free run, EFAD was right behind this trashy soft-porn novel Divorced, Desperate and Delicious, AKA "DDD."

So I even downloaded it (it was free) to see if it was any good. It's just trash, loosely plotted to give the thirtyish slut protanotist a chance to screw a series of men, while pursuing some crime case I can't even recall. I read about a third of it and deleted it.


14 posted on 06/27/2012 7:28:54 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: trailhkr1

sounds Egyptian


15 posted on 06/27/2012 7:29:03 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: cuban leaf
But I think you know what I meant. ;-)

Of course! But there was simply no way I could pass up a little bit of teasing like that.

};^P>

16 posted on 06/27/2012 7:30:27 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1254 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama is not a Big Brother [he's a Big Sissy...])
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To: Rightly Biased

Yeah, I did a quick google for a review. Apparently it’s porn. I don’t mean “bodice ripper” porn. I mean “Penthouse chronicles” (IIRC) porn.

This is sort of the equivalent of a modern “Deep Throat”, but mainly for women.

A lot of reviewers got tired of Ana (the main character) repeating “holy crap”.


17 posted on 06/27/2012 7:31:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: bigbob
sounds Egyptian

"Mummy Porn" sounds like Bill Clinton.

18 posted on 06/27/2012 7:31:51 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: trailhkr1
Plot summary from wiki:
The plot traces the relationship between recent college graduate Anastasia Steele and manipulative billionaire Christian Grey. Steele is required by Grey to sign a contract allowing him complete control over her life as well as a non-disclosure agreement, something that he has required from all of his previous submissives. Upon learning that she is a virgin, Grey agrees to have sex with her in order to prepare her for later encounters, fully intending that the contract would be signed. As she gets to know him, she learns that his sexual tastes involve bondage, domination, and sadism, and that childhood abuse left him a deeply damaged individual. In order to be his partner, she agrees to experiment with BDSM, but she struggles to reconcile who she is (a virgin who has never previously had a boyfriend) with whom Christian wants her to be, his submissive and a to-do-with-as-he-pleases partner in his "Red Room of Pain".
There are a lot of women out there with domination fantasies.
19 posted on 06/27/2012 7:33:12 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: cuban leaf

I’m waiting for the cost to come down..
love my Kindle...


20 posted on 06/27/2012 7:34:25 AM PDT by haircutter
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