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 Fifty Shades of Grey Sells More Than 10 Million Books in 6 Weeks  Vintage Books announced today that E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold more than ten million books in six weeks. The books are selling in trade paperbook, ebook and audiobook format. It seems like every one is reading one the book:
Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed.
Anthony Chirico, President, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group said, "This is an astonishing number. The sales velocity for Fifty Shades of Grey is unprecedented, with reader demand still growing. BookScan data indicates that the trilogy has captured twenty-five percent of the adult fiction market in recent weeks. As we head into the heart of the summer reading season, sales are likely to continue exceeding even our most optimistic forecasts." Vintage Books bought the audio rights and English language publication rights in February. The ebook came out in March and the paperbacks were released in April. Rights to the books have now been sold in 37 countries. Chirico says that they had to reprint the books every week to keep up with demand. There are now nine million, five hundred thousand copies of the books in print. The books began as Twilight fan fiction that included bondage. The reviews have been terrible, but fans don't care. If you'd like a taste of the writing, here's a hilarious video of Oscar winner Charlize Theron, Twilight's Kristen Stewart and Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, being forced to read a passage from the book during an interview with MTV. Photo: Random House Posted on May 22, 2012 
Your Ad Could Be Here!Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card!  British Book Chain Waterstones Cuts Ebook Deal With Arch Enemy Amazon.com Struggling British book chain Waterstones has teamed up with Amazon.com and will now sell Kindle ebook readers and ebooks. The Telegraph notes that the announcement came as quite a shock to the bookselling world, because of Waterstone's legendary antipathy towards the etailer. Just a few months ago James Daunt, the head of Waterstones, called Amazon "a ruthless, moneymaking devil." So what changed his mind? Amazon offered him a deal. Right now, the store makes no money on ebooks. By selling Kindles in-store, he can offer tutorials on how to use the Kindle and make ebook suggestions to customers. He wants to combine the hand selling of a real bookstore with the ease of use of an ebook reader. Daunt has other plans, as well. He wouldn't give specifics, but didn't deny that Waterstones will soon offer "Kindle Bundles", in which the customer who buys a hardback can purchase the ebook of the same title for a discount. He did confirm that customers will be able to see the entire ebook while they are in the store. That is significant. On Amazon.com customers can only read a few pages of an ebook before buying. At Waterstones they can browse the entire book. The store is also rolling out free Wi-Fi. Daunt is making the bold moves in order to compete with WH Smith, which sells the Kobo ereader in its stores. Posted on May 21, 2012
How To Make It As A SongwriterMary Dawson's book, How to Get Somewhere in the Music Business from Nowhere with Nothing, gives you the inside scoop on how to make it in the music business as a songwriter. Mary teaches you all you need to know to make your songwriting dreams a reality. Click here to learn more. International Scholars Gather in Scotland to Discuss Harry Potter St. Andrews University in Scotland hosted "A Brand of Fictional Magic: Reading Harry Potter as Literature," the first international conference on Harry Potter. The two day event drew 60 international scholars. Many were presenting doctoral papers on the literary relevance of J.K. Rowling's series. Academics delivered lectures on everything from the use of the Socratic method by Dumbledore to educate Harry, racial politics of goblins, the use of paganism in the books, an examination of the importance of food as it denotes British identity, and how the series is an allegory for World War II. Several scholars picked up on the World War II themes. Bielefeld University's Melanie Babenhauserheide is writing a doctoral thesis called "Ideology and Education in Rowling's Harry Potter Novels." She says the children's victory over evil in the final book is a clear allusion to the triumph over Nazism. Voldemort is Hitler, because "he hates all deviants." The conference was organized by two St. Andrews professors: John Patrick Pazdziora of the School of English and Father Micah Snell from the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts. Professor Pazdziora had this to say about the need for such a conference: "We can't avoid the fact that Harry Potter is the main narrative experience of an entire generation - the children who literally grew up with Harry Potter. The Harry Potter novels are simply the most important and influential children's books of the late-20th and early 21st Centuries." The professor takes great umbrage at those who say the books have little literary merit: "I take exception to the unexamined and misinformed assumption that the books are 'light on literary merit'. Ms Rowling's works are comic, certainly, but it's a great mistake to think they're simple or haphazard story-telling. The seven books are each and taken together a remarkably intricate ring composition for one thing, with every chapter having a parallel analogy with another in the same book." Posted on May 19, 2012
Your Ad Could Be Here!Get your message out with a text advertorial. Text Advertorials consist of 50 words of text, a graphic and link to your website. Click here to request our rate card! Children's Author and Naturalist Jean Craighead George Dead at 92  Sad news: The New York Times reports that Newberry Medal-winning children's author and naturalist Jean Craighead George has died at the age of 92 after suffering a stroke.
A prolific writer who loved animals, George wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books including Julie of the Wolves, The Buffalo Are Back and My Side of the Mountain. Her books inspired many children to learn more about wildlife and the natural world. Jane Friedman, the former CEO of HarperCollins, told School Library Journal that the hallmark of her character was her strong opinions. Friedman said, "She knew her own mind, and [that] was the best thing you could say about anyone. She was her own woman." George was always independent. After receiving her degree from Pennsylvania State University, she joined the White House Press Corps: she was one of the first women journalists to do so. At the age of 90, she was asked in an interview about her legacy. She replied, "Remember me as somebody who talked about nature, who awakened them to a new world, and helped them restore it." Photo: HarperCollins Posted on May 18, 2012 As Avengers Passes $1 Billion in Box Office Revenue, Joss Whedon Thanks His Fans  The Avengers has now broken all kinds of box office records, zooming past one billion dollars in ticket sales. Writer/director Joss Whedon has been catapulted straight into screenwriting and directing superstardom. Joss thanked his longtime fans for their support in a heartfelt and very funny post on Whedonesque. Joss wrote the post last week, just after the amazing opening numbers were posted and the glowing reviews were in. He talked about how his life will be different after The Avengers, and shares his thoughts on his next movie project: People have told me that this matters, that my life is about to change. I am sure that is true. And change is good -- change is exciting. I think -- not to jinx it -- that I may finally be recognized at Comiccon. Imagine! Also, with my percentage of "the Avengers" gross, I can afford to buy... [gets call from agent. Weeps manfully. Resumes typing.] ...a fine meal. But REALLY fine, with truffles and s#!+. And I can get a studio to finance my dream project, the reboot of "Air Bud" that we all feel is so long overdue. (He could play Jai Alai! Think of the emotional ramifications of JAI ALAI!!!!)He then talks about what his fans have meant to him, especially the long-time fans who have been with him in the Whedonverse since Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and stuck around to enjoy Angel, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse and Cabin in the Woods: What doesn't change is anything that matters. What doesn't change is that I've had the smartest, most loyal, most passionate, most articulate group of -- I'm not even gonna say fans. I'm going with "peeps" -- that any cult oddity such as my bad self could have dreamt of. When almost no one was watching, when people probably should have STOPPED watching, I've had three constants: my family and friends, my collaborators (often the same), and y'all. A lot of stories have come out about my "dark years", and how I'm "unrecognized"... I love these stories, because they make me seem super-important, but I have never felt the darkness (and I'm ALL about my darkness) that they described. Because I have so much. I have people, in my life, on this site, in places I've yet to discover, that always made me feel the truth of success: an artist and an audience communicating. Communicating to the point of collaborating. I've thought, "maybe I'm over; maybe I've said my piece". But never with fear. Never with rancor. Because of y'all. Because you knew me when. If you think topping a box office record compares with someone telling you your work helped them through a rough time, you're probably new here.Joss is an amazing writer and director, and his success on a global commercial scale is well-deserved. We just hope he agrees to write and direct Avengers 2. Photo: Zade Rosenthal/MVLFFLLC/Marvel Posted on May 18, 2012 |
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