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...every art form was technology that might change everything. Napster and similar inventions terrified the music industry with death by a thousand clicks. Video software allowed anyone to be an auteur. A novel titled Riding the Bullet, by a plucky little outsider named Stephen King, showed that the e-book could democratize publishing. Or at least win a bigger cut for filthy-rich authors. New millennium art may not know where it's going yet, but wherever that may be, it'll charge for the trip. --James Poniewozik...
John McCain wouldn't give him much face time, so Wallace, in this narrative, available only as an e-book, tries to make a virtue of exile by telling the story of the Senator's failed presidential bid from the perspective of the TV crews and others on the overflow buses. But the mash note to his fellow riders turns to wholesale gush as he pants over their observations, the banal as well as the smart, reminding us that this is Wallace's first up-close look at a campaign. Worse, some details are made up, tainting the sharp insights...
EASY READER Speaking of obsolete formats, last week Microsoft offered up further competition to the old-fashioned paper book with a new version of its Microsoft Reader software for the PC. Microsoft Reader is a free e-book program; it displays downloadable digital books using special technology that makes the letters easy on the eyes and lets you bookmark and annotate as you go. Barnesandnoble.com is backing the release with 100 free "classic" (read: uncopyrighted) electronic books, including Jane Eyre and Candide. But why read a book on a computer? Paper is still the killer app for reading...
Your article refers to Stephen King's e-book saying, "His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered...And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself." King used every available middleman to publish this novella in e-book format. He used an agent, a publisher, e-book distributors and several online bookstores. He didn't publish or distribute the book himself, nor did he sell it himself through his own website. Maybe the middlemen cut themselves out profitwise to offer the e-novella...
...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...