It is hard to talk about sex and literature without making some sort of Fifty Shades of Grey reference. But where Fifty Shades shows a caricature of S&M, the new anthology Kink is a celebration of the range of human desires. From the power of control and the titillation of voyeurism, this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-02-12 12:00:00 UTC ]
E.L. James’s irresistibly salacious novel 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is the bestselling book in the U.S. book market over the past decade according to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. They can Dish Network it out, but they can take it? In the latest... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-09-28 16:15:43 UTC ]
Penguin Random House’s Vintage Books imprint will publish 'The Mister,' a new novel by Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James, on April 16. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
You certainly don’t have to be a Fifty Shades of Grey fan to enjoy Book Club, the new romantic comedy that stars Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen. But the movie, in which four women’s lives are forever changed by reading E.L. James’ infamous series, is bound to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Overwhelming demand for the book has generated wait lists that rival such all-time bestsellers as 'Harry Potter' and 'Fifty Shades of Gray.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The beleaguered FTSE 100 firm strengthens balance sheet by selling a 22% stake to Bertelsmann in deal valuing the publishing giant at $3.55bn Pearson has sold a 22% stake in Penguin Random House, the world’s biggest publisher, with titles ranging from Fifty Shades of Grey, Jamie Oliver and The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Management have moved to reassure staff and writers that selling the 47% holding will not affect business, but authors and agents express uneaseAuthors and staff have reacted cautiously to news that Pearson is to sell its stake in Penguin Random House (PRH), the world’s biggest publisher and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Workers from Unite and NUJ fear move heralds industrial strife at company that publishes one in four books sold globallyPenguin Random House, the publisher of hits including The Girl on the Train, Fifty Shades of Grey and Jamie Oliver’s cookbooks, has terminated its collective agreement with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James has released an excerpt of a new book that, like Grey (Arrow), takes on another of her novels from billionaire Christian Grey's perspective. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Is it possible to predict whether a book will sell well? Former publisher Jodie Archer and Matthew L Jockers, of Stanford University’s Literary Lab, built an algorithm to find outYour program can identify, from scanning 20,000 books, ones which made the New York Times bestseller lists with 80%... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James has been voted the "most embarrassing book in the world", according to Mumsnet users. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterhouse Press, which published the bestselling 12-book erotica series that 'USA Today' just touted as the next Fifty Shades of Grey, is taking a numbers-driven approach to cracking the bestseller list. So far, it seems to be working. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James is helping to raise funds for a flood-hit cricket club, that has "literally disappeared under the same deluge" as flooded bookshop Book Case, in Hebden Bridge. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
E L James' Fifty Shades of Grey series has claimed five spots on Apple's iBooks 2015 best-selling fiction chart while Jeffrey Archer has claimed four spots and Lee Child has two. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A woman who founded the publishing firm which initially released Fifty Shades of Grey has been ordered by a US judge to set aside $10.7m (£6.9m) for her former partner after being found guilty of defrauding her out of royalties for the book. Australian Amanda Hayward and Jennifer Pedroza were... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Transworld) is Amazon.co.uk’s biggest selling ebook of 2015 so far, the retailer has revealed. The list of top 20 ebooks of the year is dominated by female authors, with E L James’ Fifty Shades of Grey companion novel, Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The latest installment in E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey series, Grey, hit #1 in France, Italy, and Spain last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee’s long-lost novel has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK over the past weekEL James’ reign at the top of the UK book charts for the last month with her erotic bestseller Grey has been ended by a novel written in the 1950s and abandoned in a box for decades: Harper Lee’s Go Set a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey author E L James has written a new romance, and is halfway through writing a second, she revealed in a Twitter chat with UK fans. The writer took part in the online gathering yesterday (29th June), but the hashtag for the chat #AskELJames was hijacked by people criticising... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]