May 22, 2012,
By JULIE BOSMAN

In case there was any doubt about the blockbuster success of the “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy by E L James, the numbers are in: еще than 10 million copies of the Книги have been sold in the United States in six weeks, the publisher сказал(-а) on Tuesday, putting the Книги among some of the best-selling series in modern publishing.

“The sales velocity for ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ is unprecedented, with reader demand still growing,” Anthony Chirico, the president of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, сказал(-а) in a statement. “As we head into the сердце of the...

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Copies of Fifty Shades of Grey have been flying off shelves and into the hands of millions of women — and possibly tens of men. EW has the first Stateside interview with press-shy Автор E L James (that’s a nom de plume, by the way), as well as the full story behind how the sexy novel went from unpolished Twilight-inspired Фан fiction to a full-on phenomenon.

From her perspective, creating...