Aug

50 Shades of Grey Outsells Harry Potter in the UK

Harry Potter rose to fame in the United Kingdom and author J.K. Rowling became a media darling before she took over the world. Now, author E.L. James has usurped her position on Amazon UK and for the first time has outsold the entire Harry Potter written franchise.

The first book in the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy went on sale in March 2012 and became a worldwide sensation this year. Over four million books were sold in both print and digital, beating Harry Potter at a 2:1 rate.

Gordon Willoughby, EU director of Kindle, said: “In just four months, EL James has become Amazon.co.uk’s biggest selling author of all time which is truly remarkable when you consider that we’ve been selling books for almost 14 years.”

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http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000110073910 Ryno Bones
Aww…That makes me kinda sad.
tense
Don’t worry to much. If the writers had done any research they would have realized this is misleading at best. Harry Potter’s sales figures are based solely on physical copies since most of the books were not originally available in eBook format at the time of release. Currently, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows has sales of 4 million books. The sales of Shades of Grey in physical alone are currently 3.85 million. The additional sale of 1.5 million eBooks has accounted for this. This is also only in the UK and on Amazon alone. Which is clearly stated in this article.
Now, world wide sales are entirely different with sales of Shades of Grey at 40 million sales and Harry Potter series at 450 million.
Which if you were to just divide the entire series up equally. Would be approx. 13.3 million sales of each of the “novels” in Shades of Grey and 64.4 million for each of the Harry Potter books.
These sales figures are only for Amazon as well.
So, though clearly stated in the article the title of it is just blatantly false, and used for effect.
Take comfort in that if you want.
John Hoggard
Thank you @tense:disqus for pointing out the Amazon/eBook-centric nature of this rather flimsy post. I just hope the whole 50 Shades thing dies a horrible death, soon. (Although with the release of Eighty Days Yellow I don’t know whether to cheer the competition or mourn the fact that the publishers have jumped on another bandwagon (sherotica) no doubt to the exclusion of much better writing and writers outside the genre).
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000110073910 Ryno Bones
It wasn’t the figures I was saddened by, exactly…Just the fact that so many people are willing to read 50 Shades of Gray. I’m baffled.
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