The three books of “Fifty Shades” saga are currently those that dominate the bestseller top on Kindle. The results are from Amazon that five years ago selling Kindle ebooks in the UK. The author EL James was considered to be the author who has sold more books on this platform over the past five years. In addition to “Fifty Shades”, other works that also had film adaptation, occupied eight seats in the top 10 best sellers this service.
According to the Wired.co.uk , the famous erotic saga, the first book “The Fifty Shades of Grey” is the first of the Amazon list. Second is the continuation of “The Fifty more Black Shadows” and the third book, “The Fifty Shades Free” ranks fourth. Third is “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn (this work does not exist translated into Portuguese from Portugal). This list of top 10 also included works such as “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martell, “The Men Who Hate Women” of Steig Larson, “Twelve Years Slave” Solomon Northump, among others.
When it comes to top authors, Erika Leonard James is first. Entered into this top ten are other writers whose works were also film and television adaptations. Suzanne Collins (“The Hunger Games”), George RR Martin (“A Song of Ice and Fire”), James Patterson and Sylvia Day are some that also appear in this list.
In addition to authors and works there is also a reference to the villages and cities with the largest number of readers. First is Huntigdon, second Doncaster, both located in the UK and third is the city of Rochester in New York State. When it comes to favorite literary genres, the novel is the favorite of inhabitants of Leeds, Sheffield, Doncaster and Bradford. Cambridge, in turn, expressed a notable preference for books that address social, political and philosophical themes.
Amazon launched the Kindle store in August 2010, initially with about 400,000 titles available. Today that number has nearly four million, according to the Wired.co.uk .
The literary saga of EL James is a success both sales books like movie tickets, were sold over 19,000 tickets for the first premiere of the film sessions, which occurred in February this year. Having been the subject of much acclaim, as well as many negative reviews, this literary saga has proved to be a phenomenon, selling over 100 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 50 languages.
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