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The figures show impressive increases across the board in a year where e-book popularity - in particular the likes of Fifty Shades of Grey - hit the headlines for racking up massive sales.
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"By way of comparison, the latest phenomenon in the book trade, Fifty Shades of Grey, sold 664, 000 in its highest week of sales so far, " said David Walter from Nielsen BookScan, which has been monitoring book sales in the UK since 1998.
Comparable bookstore sales benefited from the liquidation of Borders' bookstores during fiscal 2012, increased sales of NOOK products, and a strong title lineup including The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey trilogies.
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The result is far higher than anyone in the industry would have predicted a month ago, but "Mike quickly snowballed into a "Sex and the City"-type release and became a must-see "event" for groups of women in the mood for something other than "Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Given the possibilities and fantasies presented in "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Girls, " some of which have been so graphically laid out and laid bare in our oversaturated TV and Internet culture, can it not be argued that what Eliot described is the option most worth considering again, at least once everything else has been tried and found so painfully wanting?
For example, Nook users who buy the first book in a popular series like "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Divergent, " a young-adult series by Veronica Roth, tend to tear through all the books in the series, almost as if they were reading a single novel.
The news comes in the week British author EL James topped the New York Times bestseller list with her erotic romance Fifty Shades of Grey.
The genre even has its first best-seller, "Fifty Shades of Grey, " by E L James, a British mother and former TV producer.
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And need to take the headphones off your ears to ask the person sitting next to you what possessed them to read "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
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