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Either book publishing changed last week or Stephen King should start himself a cult. With minimal advertising, he got more than 500,000 readers to go online to download his new 66-page short story. The economics certainly worked in his favor. The New Yorker or Playboy might have paid him $10,000 for the piece, says King. But he estimates he'll make at least $450,000 for the e-book...
Stephen King's publisher, Simon & Schuster, tried something new yesterday, releasing a book by a major author solely as a $2.50 online download. Described by King as a "ghost story in the grand manner," "Riding the Bullet" is only 16,000 words - roughly equivalent to 40 printed pages - but the Internet experiment is a major milestone for the nascent e-books industry...
...near-fatal accident last June, when he was walking on a country road near his summer home in Lovell, Maine, and was hit by a minivan. In December King also participated in a fund-raising test of the same "digital rights management" technology that is supposed to copy-protect downloaded files. Last year he pushed the limits of other publishing outlets, releasing a three-story collection called "Blood and Smoke" exclusively in audio book format. In a statement about his new download, King said, "I'm curious to see what sort of response there is and whether or not this...
...more excited by the other stuff that the Cybiko promises to do. The Chicago-based Cybiko company calls the device an "entertainment system" because it aspires to be a new gaming platform, like the Game Boy only better, since you can connect Cybiko to your PC and download a free game every day from its website, says the company. Chess, darts--wireless darts, how cool is that!--billiards, poker and dozens of other games are promised, which you can play wirelessly against your Cybiko-toting pals. I was particularly taken with the idea of CyLandia, which features a virtual creature...
...desktop publishing, Apple has been cramming its website and its TV ads with homespun iMovies from kids and such celebs as John Cleese and Gregory Hines. All rave about how easy the software's editing process is. They're mostly right. Your footage, when you download it from the camera, arrives presliced in bite-size clips based on where you started and stopped filming. Crop each clip, change the running order, and you're on your way to Hollywood, baby...