If we didn’t think something was good, it didn’t get agented, it didn’t get published, bookshops didn’t stock it and it didn’t sell,” he said. The runaway success of Fifty Shades had forced the entire publishing industry to re-evaluate assumptions of what makes books sell.“For years, centuries even, the publishing industry and literary world’s definition of good was the only one that mattered. “The Fifty Shades phenomenon has shown the entire industry that huge amounts of readers just want a really good story and they are not that fussed about how it is presented to them,” said Scott Pack, a former head buyer for Waterstones and publisher for Harper Collins, who now runs the Aardvark Bureau imprint. Audiences, however, attended in their droves the movie took $500m at the box office.
Notoriously, James retained tight control over the dialogue and storyline, causing a rift with director Sam Taylor-Wood, and critics were united in their response to the adaptation, deemed by one “about as stimulating as a cold shower”. The response to the 2015 film was little better. Writing in the New York Times, columnist Maureen Dowd called James “Brontë devoid of talent”. It made Twilight look like War and Peace”.
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EL James may now be among the wealthiest authors in the world, having made £75m from the 125m copies of her books sold worldwide, but the critical response towards both the series and the film has been almost universally negative.Ĭritics have called her writing boring and clunky Salman Rushdie said he had “never read anything so badly written that got published. Yet the unstoppable success of the Fifty Shades trilogy, originally self-published as fan fiction of the vampire series Twilight, has left the publishing industry and the literary world reeling. Before publication it was Kindle’s top preorder book for 2015. The book, only announced at the beginning of June, retells the story of the steamy relationship between troubled business tycoon Christian Grey and naive student Anastasia Steele from Grey’s perspective. It is a success story that most are predicting will repeat itself with EL James’s latest addition to the series, Grey, published on Thursday.
In one Cumbria hotel, it has replaced the bible in every bedroom. Since Fifty Shades of Grey was published in 2011, it has not only proved the fastest-selling book in Britain since records began and spawned the most successful 18-rated film ever, but also influenced sales of lingerie and prompted a spike in the purchase of sex toys. To call it a publishing phenomenon is an enormous understatement.
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