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Stephen King Puts The Plant On Ice
News Stephen King is pulling the plug, for now, on The Plant. Give me $15, and I will write a book in chapters -- but that's not what Stephen King did. Some readers are unhappy with King's announcement. King posted the first instalment of the novel on...
[November 29, 2000, 10:43]
Stephen King Online In Novel Experiment
News Bestselling author Stephen King will post the first instalment of his new novel The Plant online on 24 July in a direct online book selling experiment. Steal and the story folds," warns King on his Web site.
[July 20, 2000, 12:39]
Stephen King Rewrites E-book Biz
News Author Stephen King touched off an explosion in the electronic book (e-book) world this week by breaking records and crashing Web sites as readers rushed to get a copy of his new horror novella. I think this shows that people, who may not even be...
[March 17, 2000, 10:11]
Stephen King To Publish E-book
News Horror writer Stephen King will release a new story exclusively in e-book form, publisher Simon & Schuster announced on Wednesday. The 16,000-word ghost story, Riding the Bullet will be available for $2.50 (£1.55) on 14 March.eBook vendors include...
[March 8, 2000, 14:21]
Scary! Stephen King E-book Pirated
News The Stephen King novella "Riding the Bullet" may have been even more popular online than was previously thought. The story, exclusively released in an electronic version two weeks ago, set records as users rushed online to download copies.
[March 30, 2000, 9:18]
Legal Napster Alternative To Be Unveiled
News Clarke says Uprizer's new application will seek to emulate the success of Stephen King's online publishing project. King publishes chapters of his latest book online in return for direct payment. This pays King for his work without having to...
[August 4, 2000, 9:15]
Dr Who Regenerated Online
News A number of creators and production companies have experimented with the Internet as a way of distributing entertainment, including Stephen King's abortive attempt to sell a serialised novel on Amazon.com.
[June 11, 2001, 17:00]
Amazon Honor System Trusts Surfers To Pay Up
News The Honor System is patterned after the payment system that Amazon used for Stephen King's serialised online novel, "The Plant". King suspended writing the novel in November, but has said that he plans eventually to resume writing it.
[February 6, 2001, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Otherwise known as Mike King, MD of Johnson King - hi-tech PR to people such as Sophos, Aruba Networks, Mirrorpoint and others. The party goes well, with guest speaker Stephen Fry giving a good account of himself and the profession: "We're all...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
HP Acquires Mercury Interactive
News IBM's position among SOA developers was an especially key area that HP needed to address, said Charles King, an analyst at Pund-IT. HP itself is in a much stronger position these days, having regained some of its momentum over a year after Hurd was...
[July 26, 2006, 9:20]
UK Writers Get Online Publishing Deal
News This comes just a few weeks after US horror author Stephen King embarked on his own online publishing venture. King has published instalments of his latest book online on the condition that at least 75 percent of readers pay $1 per episode.
[August 15, 2000, 16:04]
Reading With Your Ears
News You had your high-end thrillers such as The Da Vinci Code, the hot self-help and business how-to tomes of the moment, and the odd chunk of Tom Clancy and Stephen King. For years, the best-seller list on Audible.com, a Web merchant that sells...
[August 23, 2004, 10:40]
Barnes & Noble Pulps E-books
News E-books sparked a flurry of excitement in 2000 when best-selling author Stephen King experimented with the format. Barnes&Noble.com has discontinued sales of e-books, according to a statement on the company's Web site.
[September 10, 2003, 8:45]
Online Publishing Gets Boost From Forsyth
News Forsyth follows in the footsteps of Stephen King, whose online publishing experiment has proved to be a success. Renowned UK thriller writer Frederick Forsyth, author of Day of the Jackal and other bestsellers, is to publish his next work...
[September 20, 2000, 9:22]
Publisher Unites Old Man And The E-book
News The technology has attracted more modern authors, such as Stephen King, but older works have also made their way into the format as publishers seek new outlets for their back catalogues. Ernest Hemingway is moving into the digital age, as Scribner...
[May 1, 2002, 7:32]
WHSmith Opens EBook Store
News Beadle is betting on three types of eBook that are likely to be popular: short stories -- Harper Collins will have a collection including one from Stephen King; guidebooks -- whether for wine or travel; and expensive academic texts where it may be...
[October 4, 2001, 17:26]
New Flare-up In Battle Over E-books
News He also downplayed the threat of self-publishing to the traditional media world, claiming that few authors were well-branded enough to pull off the successful debut of Stephen King, claiming that "low-cost distribution leads to high-cost branding...
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
People Down Mice As Internet Backlash Begins
News Last month author Stephen King pulled the plug on his online novel The Plant New evidence suggesting people are turning off the Internet in droves could be down to its increasing commercialisation according to one academic Tuesday.
[December 6, 2000, 12:21]
Microsoft Wins New Friends As Anti-piracy Superhero
News Several online instances of content protection -- notably Stephen King's first attempt at Net publishing -- have been quickly cracked. Without much fanfare, Microsoft has captured a leading spot in the content-protection business, a role that is...
[February 2, 2001, 8:14]
Symantec Ships Uninstaller, Troubleshooter
News While rivals such as Quarterdeck and IMSI have long been cashing in on the popular category, utilities king Symantec has been keeping a watching brief and developing its own product for the last year.
[October 16, 1997, 10:29]
