Sure, someone might self-publish the next 50 Shades of Grey.

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Said covers will come in red, yellow, black and white, offering a splash of color to the three understated monochrome shades (white, grey and black) of the hardware.

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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.

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L. James wrote the precursor to Fifty Shades of Grey online as fan fiction and self-published it on her own website before Vintage acquired it.

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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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The trade-offs and shades of grey that an entrepreneur must consider before deciding to go into business.

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News is most definitely in colour, but back in the 1950s the serious work was done in shades of grey.

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But it is a reminder that there are 50 shades of grey in the debate over generational inequality - there are the howls of anguish as inequality between the generations is discussed and ideas for redress are broached.

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Shades of grey are created by tilting the mirror backwards and forwards thousands of times a second to vary the brightness of the pixel it is projecting.

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" Except for fluke blockbusters like "50 Shades of Grey, " he says, "I don't hear a commonality in the books people talk about.

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