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...best-selling author of good old-fashioned books, Stephen King has always seen the promise inherent in the Internet. It's a medium designed to get as much content to as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. And there are few people who have as much content as King. In 2000, he debuted his novella Riding the Bullet exclusively on the Web; more than 400,000 downloads were recorded in the first 24 hours. At the time it was a staggering number. This month, King is dipping his toe into the Internet yet again. To promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen King, Ready for Download | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...stimulate book sales. It's a combination of desperation and creativity," says Susan Moldow, King's editor and the publisher of Scribner. "I'm not the first person to observe that books are in a little bit of a crisis. And we want to be able to provide our content in whatever platform people are going to turn to." Moldow, who is giddy about a potential new way to plug her authors' books ("If you're a publisher and you don't have a little P.T. Barnum in you, you don't belong in the business"), says producing "trailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen King, Ready for Download | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...public-advocacy group that helped maneuver the trans-fats ban in New York City restaurants and pushed national chains to divulge fat and calorie content on their menus is agitating for more change. The Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is now calling for easy public access to restaurant health-code grades, improved health-inspector training and a nationwide standard for restaurant inspections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Restaurants: Sounding an Alarm | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

...high scorer on this apparatus. But she lost her grip in one of those flights, and took a hit in her score. "It just happened," she says. "There wasn't anything wrong, I fell. It was a mistake." While she normally scores above 16, she had to be content with a 15.05. Then came Liukin, who has one of the most difficult routines in the world and might have been shaken to see Memmel slip off the bars. After a typically flawless program, Liukin uncharacteristically landed awkwardly and fell onto her back, dropping her score; in qualifying for the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US: Rough Start to Gymnastics | 8/10/2008 | See Source »

...Other academic institutions, including the medical schools at Stanford and Michigan and the school of public health at Berkeley, will be also contributing to the Medpedia Project, though all of the content that they provide will be editable...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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