50 Shades of Grey Replaces Gideon Bibles in English Hotel

    We all know that the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy is rapidly becoming one of the fastest selling books since the 1990s, outselling the famous Twilight trilogy, the Hunger Games and even the Very Hungry Caterpillar, but will it soon out-gross the Bible?

    One hotel in the UK has replaced the bibles in each room with the raunchy bestseller by E. L. James 50 Shades of Grey. Quite the contrast from the usual Gideon Bible you’ll find in the majority of hotel rooms, 50 Shades of Grey is an erotic adventure that follows innocent and virginal Anastasia Steele into the red room of pain of the handsome, rich and perverted CEO Christian Grey.

    So why did the owners of the Damson Dene Hotel choose the popular yet controversial 50 Shades of Grey trilogy to replace the Holy Book?

    “Everybody is reading 50 Shades of Grey,” cite the owners. Offering the steamy book is a hospitable gesture, making it available to people who are too shy about buying the book themselves because of 50 Shades of Grey’s reputation.

    Stashed discretely in the bedside table for their guests to happen upon, the owners of the hotel thought that 50 Shades of Grey would be more appropriate for Britain’s secular and liberal society.

    While some accuse the Damson Dene hotel of running a gimmick on the back of the success of the 50 Shades of Grey books, the Lake District based hotel is not the only one cashing in on the 50 Shades of Grey craze. Hotels in Seattle, such as the Edgewater and the Hotel Max offer 50 Shades of Grey packages. The Heathman Hotel in Portland had a featuring role in the 50 Shades of Grey books and also offers romantic, 50 Shades of Grey themed weekends, as well as book parties for the fans of the books.

    What’s next in the 50 Shades of Grey phenomenon? With the entire buzz around the bestselling trilogy and the plans for the movie, 50 Shades of Grey is the book that is gracing everyone’s lips. Perhaps more hotels will offer the Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele specials – because who wouldn’t want to spend the weekend in a hotel in Christian’s world?

Sales Figures for the Fifty Shades Trilogy Get Spanked into Submission

    E.L. James’s sexy Fifty Shades trilogy is not just a bestseller, but ranks at 11th place in the all time bestseller lists from 1998, out grossing the Hunger Games books and even the Twilight series Fifty Shades drew inspiration from. However, for the first time in two months the sales of the Fifty Shades books have fallen after eight consecutive weeks of increased sales.

    The sales of the Fifty Shades books have fallen by 1.21m dollars during the last week, a whopping 16%. In spite of this huge Ana Steele-esque tumble, Fifty Shades still graces the number one lists by a huge margin.

    So, what has caused the erotic bestseller to lose its steam during the week? Only the week before, the Fifty Shades trilogy reached its peak when the book sold over 1.4 million copies worldwide. Recently, the media has been having a field day with the Fifty Shades series, and the books have received exposure all over the newspapers and TV, gaining Fifty Shades more attention than ever.

    This week, the buzz around Fifty Shades has quietened down a bit, yet the drop in sales is nothing to be worried about, since Fifty Shades is most definitely staying dominant in the number one spot.

    Saying that, the Fifty Shades series still has quite a bit to go before reaching the number one spot of the legendary bestsellers, such as Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons, but who knows where Fifty Shades will be on the charts once the movies get made.

    This year’s published summer reads are struggling to meet the Fifty Shades competition, with the sales of E.L. James’s books comprising a quarter of the total books sales in the last month or so.

    So despite the drop in sales, has E.L. James’s Fifty Shades books been spanked into submission or do they continue to hold the riding crop in one hand with the other books bound up in the red room of pain? Looks like Fifty Shades of Grey and its sequels will not be submitting any time soon.