My prediction:
Since this S&M craze over this new trilogy the Mafias 'Slave Market & Escorts' section should become a lot more active and loved.

I've bought mine already (cause no more exemplars available in the local library & downloading, reading sh*t on computer kills eyes and is not as compact as a book)... going to read as soon as possible! :3
Hate the fact it's based on Twilight fan fiction... Heard some bad feedbacks as well, but then again - I'm gonna read it to develop my own opinion about it, suck all the possible information, chew it very carefully and then spit all the sh*t out which I don't like. :3 The rest I will just swallow like an inner man. And then let's see if I get to wear the Me Gusta face. Other than that, I'm happily excited before reading it (high hopes and great expectations? Hmm, not really.. Ok, maybe a bit. :3)

Your thoughts/opinions/suggestions/predictions/flames?

I know it started as a Twilight fan fic, but I see zero resemblance what so ever.

Personally, I find 50 shades to be a sad sex novel....nothing more nothing less. Two people try to have a purely BDSM sexual relationship...only to find out they are not sexually compatible. No romance, no emotions, no feelings. Just flat 2D horny characters looking for nothing but a friend with benefits. The writing is not even beautiful and sexy; as someone who actually practices BDSM ... it just comes off as uninformed and funny. Take it as a B level comedy, not an introduction to BDSM.

50 Shades of "Horniness" is too long a novel for me to read. I prefer short stories. I don't have the patience to read the whole trilogy. I would rather read the Penthouse Forums and Playboy letters (centerfold page included).