"Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy sales reach 100 million
"Fifty Shades of Grey" has joined the 100 million club.
Vintage Books announced Wednesday that sales for E L James' sexually explicit trilogy have reached 100 million copies and have spent 100 weeks on The New York Times' paperback best-seller list. The novels have been translated into 51 languages, including Hebrew, Icelandic and Korean. With a film adaptation planned for 2015 -- starring Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey and Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele -- many more sales are likely.
The author took to Twitter to thank fans after reaching the milestone.
Guys... thank you for this: http://t.co/2AM5wHSirH Thank you, thank you, thank you. ♡
— E L James (@E_L_James) February 26, 2014James' books, which originated as fan fiction inspired by Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" books, immediately topped best-seller lists after Vintage acquired them in 2012. Vintage is an imprint of Penguin Random House.