E.L. James, the author of the wildly popular “50 Shades of Grey,” is riding high off the success of her erotic adult novel, pulling in a whopping $1.34 million a week from book sales.
The author has sold over 20 million books world wide, which she takes 7% of every $14 paperback sold and another 25% of every $10 ebook downloaded.
Entertainment Weekly took on the task of crunching the numbers and revealed that E.L. would be getting a $20 million check from her publisher come September.

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