Second Hand Stores Become Fifty Shades Graveyards

It was the biggest selling book in British history, offering a lifeline to struggling booksellers as readers bought the paperback phenomenon, Fifty Shades of Grey, in droves.

 

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But the success of the erotic novel has evolved into a great burden on the industry, with second hand book retailers and charity stores amassing thousands of unwanted donations of the "mummy porn" trilogy that they can't sell or recycle, The Telegraph reports.

 

Now that the hype has died down, second hand sellers are saying they can't shift the novels and are receiving more double the number of donations as they are sales of the books.

The books cannot be recycled because of the glue used on the spine and cover.

 

 a helpful facebook group called 50 Ways to Kill 50 Shades of Grey has been set up for users to share creative ways to dispose of the unwanted kinky novels.

 

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What's wrong with the glue they used on the cover?

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No idea about the glue, but I had only commented to someone this week about the number of copies in Lifeline and Vinnies.
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Thats unusual about the glue...most paperbacks can be pulped and recycled

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Have not seen any in the op shops here in Tassie.
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perhaps its not the glue that binds it together, but the sticky stuff that came later  Woman Surprised  Woman Tongue

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Yeah, catz luv a nite on the town....

 

Is cat porn against ebay rules? Mods? 

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