"Hotels may be creating packages around the novel Fifty Shades of Grey to attract visitors, but turns out visitors are leaving their copies behind when they check out of hotels," according to ABC News, which reported that E.L. James's erotic bestseller was the book most often left behind at Travelodge U.K. properties.
The hotel chain's annual survey found that 7,000 copies of the novel were discarded, amounting to nearly one-third of the total 21,786 books left behind in 36,500 Travelodge hotel rooms.
"It is interesting to see that our list is not dominated by celebrity biographies and chick lit books, which it has been in the past," a Travelodge spokeswoman told the Telegraph.
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But if you're in more of a trading than leaving behind mood, publisher OR Books is currently featuring a "Bonnets for Bondage Giveaway" promotion through which OR will "send the first fifty respondents a free, illustrated copy of Fifty Shades of Louisa May... which is simply a superior read, and might actually rock your world, old school style."
