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...longtime fan of Stephen King's, I was disappointed to read his comment that if he publishes a novel online, "whether they wanted it to or not, it would force a lot of people to read it online." Why should his readers be forced into this format? After downloading his Riding the Bullet, I can state that reading a book on the computer is not a satisfying experience at all. GEORGE TUTEK Chesterfield...
...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 for free, but they sure weren...
...than a rebel. Lydon is ensconced in Nickelodeon's editing room finishing the second episode of Rotten Television, his new series for Nick's sister channel, VH1. A free-form zeitgeist diatribe, it has no script, a shoestring budget and zero structure. "What's the fun in having a format?" he asks, burping nonchalantly and narrowing his eyes to a laser glare. "I'll leave that to everyone else...
...Still, the rise of the MP3 format seems to have inspired a move towards a mix-and-match approach to music, which means compilations and DJ mix albums are probably going to be increasingly popular in the U.S. and will lose the K-Tel cheap-and-awful stigma. For instance, Essential Selections, one of the major British DJ mix labels, announced that they're starting to release mix albums in the U.S. My question is, how come American compilations ("Total Hits '99," etc.) are designed to look so much uglier than their glitzy British equivalents, even if the quality...
There are many reasons Napster has spread like dandelions, not the least of which is that it's very easy to use. Then there's also the matter of scoring free music downloads encoded in the MP3 file format, but let's focus on Napster's simplicity. Download the software, install it, press Connect and you're ready to start searching. If you want to share the MP3 files on your hard drive with others, you can. But if you don't, that...