The novel, which recently reached the top of the fiction charts, is the first of a trilogy by British author E.L. James, published by a small independent Australian press in May 2011. The print version has been hard to come by in bookstores, so many have been forced to read the e-book edition. &quot;Hundreds of women write to me every day asking where they can buy grey ties,&quot; ABC News quoted Lyss Stern of Divamoms.com, who recommended the novel before it became popular as saying. &quot;The books are really making people want to have sex again. They&#39;re a Band-Aid for marriages that maybe weren&#39;t falling apart, but were getting stale,&quot; Stern said. <img alt="Sex and relationships, Fifty Shades of Grey" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/aug/50shades_2.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 771px;" /> Margot Sage-El, the owner of Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, N.J., called the trilogy a &quot;phenomena.&quot; &quot;It&#39;s coming in and out of here so quickly that none of us have read it,&quot; Sage-El said. &quot;When I got here this morning, men were lined up outside the door, saying their wives sent them to pick up the book. When there were two books left, an 86-year-old man waddled in, asked for the book and said, &#39;My wife sent me in, she thought it would be good for her book group,&#39;&quot; Sage-El said. &#39;Fifty Shades of Grey&#39; is about shy college student Anastasia Steele, who interviews the successful and attractive entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine. The two begin a passionate affair that forms the basis for a tale the author&#39;s website claims &quot;will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.&quot; James&#39; website offers a soundtrack for each book that includes everything from opera to Frank Sinatra to Britney Spears. Why each book has a soundtrack is left for the reader to wonder. According to The New York Times, readers aren&#39;t the only ones who have been trying to snap up this book. American publishers battled over the rights to re-release the trilogy, with Vintage Books winning the fight with a seven-figure offer.

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