College Store Black and White About Fifty Shades of Grey

Shelf Awareness

Painful news from the Boston College Bookstore, according to the Heights, Boston College's student newspaper: after an e-mail request to the store and the administration asking that the store no longer sell the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy by E.L. James, the store has taken copies of the books off the shelves.

Bookstore assistant director Tina Plotegher told the paper: "We don't want to offend anybody. We pull things off the shelves--it's just this happens to be a hot topic." She added that the administration had not said the book should be pulled.

The store had been selling the titles for several months, even before the movie was released on February 13, and had received several e-mails and calls complaining about the books' availability but not demanding their removal. "They didn't believe the University should be promoting a book that goes against Catholic religion," Plotegher said.