TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Fifty Shades of Grey http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 18:15:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 From the author of Fifty Shades, a how-to writing guide http://www.teleread.com/books/fifty-shades-author-to-publish-writing-guide/ http://www.teleread.com/books/fifty-shades-author-to-publish-writing-guide/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:22:05 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=81174 It sounds suspiciously like a story from The Onion: ‘Fifty Shades’ author to publish writing guide. But nope—it’s actually a real-life AP wire story that appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s website this morning. Scheduled to be published on May 1 by Random House’s Vintage imprint, Fifty Shades of Grey: Inner Goddess (A Journal) will be a combination of author E.L. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/books/fifty-shades-author-to-publish-writing-guide/feed/ 3 More reviewers say ‘yes’ to indie authors today, but getting noticed is still an uphill climb http://www.teleread.com/publishing/more-reviewers-say-yes-to-indie-authors-but-still-an-uphill-climb/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/more-reviewers-say-yes-to-indie-authors-but-still-an-uphill-climb/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:10:34 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=80052 Allen Schatz published his first book two years ago. After things didn’t work out with an agent, he went the self-publishing route and knew he had to market on his own, which meant contacting reviewers. Some said yes, many said no. But Schatz noticed a change in the business around this time and self-publishing didn’t [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/publishing/more-reviewers-say-yes-to-indie-authors-but-still-an-uphill-climb/feed/ 3 For Valentine’s Day, an erotica e-reading survey http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/for-valentines-day-an-erotica-e-reading-poll/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/for-valentines-day-an-erotica-e-reading-poll/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:54:47 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=78982 It’s Valentine’s Day, and what better day to talk about e-books and romance? Or to be more specific, e-books and erotica. E-books have been very good for the erotica genre. Even the Wall Street Journal thinks so. Why? Because women can now read books they’d otherwise be ashamed to be seen reading in public. No [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/for-valentines-day-an-erotica-e-reading-poll/feed/ 0 Self-published schoolgirl lands three-book publishing deal after becoming online hit http://www.teleread.com/self-publishing/self-published-schoolgirl-lands-three-book-publishing-deal-after-becoming-online-hit/ http://www.teleread.com/self-publishing/self-published-schoolgirl-lands-three-book-publishing-deal-after-becoming-online-hit/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:45:44 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77195 Watch out EL James, there’s a new writer out to steal your crown as a bestselling romance novelist—and she’s only 17-years-old. Like the [Fifty Shades] author, Beth Reeks was snapped up by a publisher after her book was initially a hit online. Now her novel, The Kissing Booth, is set to be published in paperback, which could [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/self-publishing/self-published-schoolgirl-lands-three-book-publishing-deal-after-becoming-online-hit/feed/ 0 ’50 Shades’ Success Yields $5K Bonuses at Random House http://www.teleread.com/books/50-shades-success-yields-5000-bonuses-at-random-house/ http://www.teleread.com/books/50-shades-success-yields-5000-bonuses-at-random-house/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:30:33 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75518   Employees at book publisher Random House are getting a little something extra in their fishnet Christmas stockings this year, a $5,000 bonus. The bonus, which will be the same for top editors as their secretaries, follows a particularly good year for the publishing house in large part from the success of … Read Full Article [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/books/50-shades-success-yields-5000-bonuses-at-random-house/feed/ 0 Simon & Schuster to publish more reworked Twilight fanfic http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/simon-schuster-to-publish-more-reworked-twilight-fanfic/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/simon-schuster-to-publish-more-reworked-twilight-fanfic/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:04:27 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=74371 Ever since reworked Twilight fanfic Fifty Shades of Grey hit bookstore shelves and immediately burned a path up the charts, many publishers have been giving more serious consideration to fanfic. Might it make a decent source of publishable stories, a sort of Internet slushpile they could mine for nuggets at their leisure? But it seems [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/simon-schuster-to-publish-more-reworked-twilight-fanfic/feed/ 2 Here come the erotica e-books http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/here-come-the-erotic-fiction-e-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/here-come-the-erotic-fiction-e-books/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:09:52 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=73013 Reporting from this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, AFP’s Frederic Happe filed an amusing feature over the weekend about the somewhat recent—and astonishingly quick—rise of e-books with fictional erotic themes. It doesn’t exactly take a publishing futurist, of course, to understand why erotic e-books have attained such popularity, and as far as I can tell, there [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/here-come-the-erotic-fiction-e-books/feed/ 4 EL James of Fifty Shades fame threatens a sex-themed party planner with legal action http://www.teleread.com/legal/el-james-of-fifty-shades-fame-threatens-a-sex-themed-party-planner-with-legal-action/ http://www.teleread.com/legal/el-james-of-fifty-shades-fame-threatens-a-sex-themed-party-planner-with-legal-action/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:03:37 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=70452 There’s a halfway decent chance this story isn’t even true, but the infamous Daily Mirror (a UK tabloid) and its sister publication, the Coventry Telegraph, are both reporting that Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James has threatened a sex-themed party planner with legal action. According to the two papers, a 45-year-old woman by the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/legal/el-james-of-fifty-shades-fame-threatens-a-sex-themed-party-planner-with-legal-action/feed/ 0 The lessons of Fifty Shades for bookstores, publishers, and media http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-lessons-of-fifty-shades-for-bookstores-publishers-and-media/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-lessons-of-fifty-shades-for-bookstores-publishers-and-media/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 20:46:46 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-lessons-of-fifty-shades-for-bookstores-publishers-and-media/ The popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey continues, and people keep trying to make sense of it. The Bookseller’s blog had a couple of interesting posts lately on the phenomenon. Scott Pack writes of how the book came from right out of nowhere, completely overturning established expectations, and now publishers and bookstores are scrambling to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/fifty-shades-of-grey/feed/ 0 Twilight fanfic, pulling to publish, and the fandom gift economy http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/twilight-fanfic-pulling-to-publish-and-the-fandom-gift-economy/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/twilight-fanfic-pulling-to-publish-and-the-fandom-gift-economy/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:29:57 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/twilight-fanfic-pulling-to-publish-and-the-fandom-gift-economy/ Doctor Science, the blogger who wrote a couple of installments on the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon last month that I blogged about at the time, actually wrote a third piece, which I only just noticed when I went back to check references for the fanfic article I posted earlier. The first two parts talked [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/twilight-fanfic-pulling-to-publish-and-the-fandom-gift-economy/feed/ 2 Fifty Shades prompts new interest in fan fiction http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fifty-shades-prompts-new-interest-in-fan-fiction/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fifty-shades-prompts-new-interest-in-fan-fiction/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:38:25 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fifty-shades-prompts-new-interest-in-fan-fiction/ Fifty Shades of Grey certainly seems to be taking the publishing world by storm, catching imagination not so much for the content but for what it represents. On the Bookseller’s FutureBook blog, Agent Orange turns up his (or her?) nose at the reading public’s taste (or lack thereof) in making such a work popular, but [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/fifty-shades-prompts-new-interest-in-fan-fiction/feed/ 1 Might Fifty Shades start a fanfic-publishing bandwagon? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/might-fifty-shades-start-a-fanfic-publishing-bandwagon/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/might-fifty-shades-start-a-fanfic-publishing-bandwagon/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/might-fifty-shades-start-a-fanfic-publishing-bandwagon/ On The Bookseller, Neill Denny reflects on how Fifty Shades of Grey is burning up the sales charts. He looks at it in terms of the overall spiciness of the erotic content, which goes somewhat beyond the boundary of what is normally considered “romance” and wonders if it will start a trend toward publishing more [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/might-fifty-shades-start-a-fanfic-publishing-bandwagon/feed/ 2 Fifty Shades of Grey and the decline of the publishing industry http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/fifty-shades-of-grey-and-the-decline-of-the-publishing-industry/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/fifty-shades-of-grey-and-the-decline-of-the-publishing-industry/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:49:51 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/fifty-shades-of-grey-and-the-decline-of-the-publishing-industry/ Related to the Kristine Kathryn Rusch post of earlier today comes an interesting series of posts on the blog Obsidian Wings about the Twilight-fanfic-turned-pro novel Fifty Shades of Grey. In the first part, blogger “Doctor Science” summarizes a long post and follow-up elsewhere by Tom Simon on the overall decline of the publishing industry. The [...]

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