Arnoldo Mondadori Editore around the world, of which around 300,000 in Italy, with the aim of supporting the process of growth in digital for books. In 2012 Mondadori publishes Fifty Shades of Grey, the first volume of the erotic trilogy by debut London author E L James, rapidly followed by the two other titles, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. The trilogy sees in Italy the same kind of unprecedented success it gained in the English-language world: with more than 3.3 million copies sold in Italy and 130,000 downloads of the electronic version, the three volumes reach first, third and fourth position
Fifty Shades Darker (film) and found fault in the change in directors, stating: Some of the greatest Hollywood melodramas (such as Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession") featured plotlines of an even more extravagant absurdity than that of "Fifty Shades Darker". Their extreme artifice became a framework for extreme ideas and extreme emotions, even in an era of extreme public reticence about what goes on in the bedroom. The freedom of the current age of sexual explicitness invites realms of characterization—and of intimate imagination—that the first film in the "Fifty Shades" series hints at and the second one utterly ignores. "Fifty Shades Darker"s indifference to its