Economist

Andrew Franklin

Hot summer reading

Without e-books, would there be “Fifty Shades of Grey”?

Lean-back technology is not only changing how we read, it is rapidly changing what we read, and publishers are rushing to fulfil the new demand. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is now the fastest selling paperback in history. Its sales records have broken even those set by “Harry Potter”, selling 397,889 paperbacks in the UK last [...]

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