books to read if you like 50 shades of grey

'It took us nine months to sell 35 million copies of E.L. 'It took us four years to sell 20 million copies of Stieg Larssen's Girl books,' he says. But, Bogaards says, nothing has ever gone as viral as the Fifty Shades books. Paul Bogaards, who did the PR for both series, says that in publishing, these kinds of books are known as 'miracle publications' because they take on a life of their own. Random House has had some other huge best-sellers in recent years - after all, it also published the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. Everyone went nuts and the cheers went on for several minutes.' 'I mean people started cheering, and I hugged the person next to me. Elena Legeros, who works in the digital marketing department at Random House, recalls the Christmas party where the news was announced. They're calling it the ' Fifty Shades bonus,' and $5,000 is not chump change. It was the news that every employee - every single employee - of Random House USA was getting a $5,000 bonus. It wasn't just that you couldn't go anywhere without hearing about it. And I ignored it until I couldn't anymore. It's a cultural phenomenon - it's Fifty Shades of Grey. It's one of the biggest sellers of all time. A little gem of a first novel, or a memoir by an unknown writer that unexpectedly captured everyone's imagination.īut sometimes, it's the elephant in the room that you just haven't looked at yet. Sometimes 'the one that got away' is a book that was easy to overlook.

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Books to read if you like 50 shades of grey