[access-uk] Re: Is this a sign of end to e-books
- From: <Clive.Lever@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:39:56 +0000
Thanks Ian,
That's goaded me to get the Shining, and read it first, then if I like it, to
pre-order Dr Sleep. I've just read Carrie and Christine, so I'm surprised
Amazon haven't nagged me to go fetch Dr Sleep as well.
Best,
Clive
Clive Lever
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Kent County Council
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Is this a sign of end to e-books
This looks like a marketing stunt to me. This is the strand of King's writing
which originated under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and is not published by
his regular publisher Hodder. His next proper Stephen King novel, Dr Sleep
which is a sequel to The Shining is definitely being published digitally in
September. I know because I have it on pre-order for the Kindle.
On 22 May 2013, at 11:49, Derek Hornby wrote:
> From The Times 22 May 2013
> Stephen King logs out of e-books and tells fans to buy print John
> Simpson
>
> Stephen King, the prolific horror writer, championed the nascent
> e-book revolution more than a decade ago by publishing an online-only novella.
>
> But in a sharp about-turn, he has decided not to release the digital
> rights to his latest book.
>
> King said that for his new novel, Joyland, he hoped that readers would
> return to bookshops to buy old-fashioned print editions. The book, due
> to be published on June 7 in Britain, will be available only in print
> format.
>
> "I have no plans for a digital version," the author told The Wall
> Street Journal. "Maybe at some point, but in the meantime, let people
> stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital
> one."
>
> King's short story Riding the Bullet was published in 2000 in e-book form.
> The
> decision was thought to have been a significant step towards the new
> age of e-publishing. When he released the story, priced at 2 dollars,
> 50, King wrote on his website: "My friends, we have the chance to
> become Big Publishing's worst nightmare." In the novella, a writer
> sends a man-eating plant to a publishing house that has rejected his
> manuscript.
>
> Now, as it becomes clear that "Big Publishing" has cornered the online
> market, it seems King has decided to back traditional paper
> publishing. Joyland will be published by Hard Case Crime, an
> independent American publisher that specialises in lurid pulp fiction
> artwork on its book covers. In 2005, Hard Case published King's novel
> The Colorado Kid.
>
> Sales of e-books in the United States doubled in 2012 compared with 2011.
> Paul
> Ingram, the buyer for Prairie Lights bookshop in Iowa City, Iowa, said
> he hoped that King's decision would inspire other authors.
>
> Mr Ingram said that it was unfortunate that many people would rather
> buy books from their computer or mobile phone than browse the shelves
> at a bookshop.
>
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