The 51-year-old is raking in over 100,000 pounds a day from the book series, which has been turned into a Hollywood film starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, reported Daily Express quouting the Sun.
Since the first book in the trilogy was released in 2011 the series has shifted more than 100 million copies and made James, real name Erika Leonard, the fifth richest British author.
Accounts filed at Companies House show James' business Fifty Shades Limited made 43,910,466 in the 12 months to September 30, 2013 - with pre-tax profits of 33 million pounds.
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