(Just today came the news that it had been bumped by Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl in e-book sales. Don't worry, Fifty Shades still has an overall lock on things.) But with popularity, and/or hype, comes plenty of reaction, including our own here at The Atlantic Wire. Along with all the opinions, there have been numerous books with similar themes, similar covers, similar plots.
It's dominated the best-seller lists all summer.
Since its release in the United States, that initially self-published little trilogy called Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 30 million copies.