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    Riding The Bullet As An Ebook in March 2000. The Work Became The First Successful Mass-Market

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    E-books are digital texts that can be distributed worldwide over the Internet at low cost, potentially replacing printed books. E-book texts are downloaded to computers or reading devices and displayed on backlit screens for reading. E-book devices can store many books and allow for adjusting text size, searching, and looking up words. While e-books have advantages like lower costs, issues around pricing models, piracy, and device costs have slowed adoption by publishers. Stephen King's 2000 e-book "Riding the Bullet" was successfully downloaded over 400,000 times.

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    Riding The Bullet As An Ebook in March 2000. The Work Became The First Successful Mass-Market

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    E-books are digital texts that can be distributed worldwide over the Internet at low cost, potentially replacing printed books. E-book texts are downloaded to computers or reading devices and displayed on backlit screens for reading. E-book devices can store many books and allow for adjusting text size, searching, and looking up words. While e-books have advantages like lower costs, issues around pricing models, piracy, and device costs have slowed adoption by publishers. Stephen King's 2000 e-book "Riding the Bullet" was successfully downloaded over 400,000 times.

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    E-books are digital texts that can be distributed worldwide over the Internet at low cost, potentially replacing printed books. E-book texts are downloaded to computers or reading devices and displayed on backlit screens for reading. E-book devices can store many books and allow for adjusting text size, searching, and looking up words. While e-books have advantages like lower costs, issues around pricing models, piracy, and device costs have slowed adoption by publishers. Stephen King's 2000 e-book "Riding the Bullet" was successfully downloaded over 400,000 times.

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    Riding The Bullet As An Ebook in March 2000. The Work Became The First Successful Mass-Market

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    fiction or nonfiction text that is distributed and read in digital form, usually on a computer or

    handheld display device. Because they can be cheaply distributed worldwide over the Internet
    and do not require shelf space, e-books have the potential to someday replace the printed book.
    Devices that store and display electronic texts are sometimes referred to generically as e-books.

    E-book texts are downloaded to a computer or a reading device through a modem or other
    Internet connection. Some devices cannot download texts and must be connected to another
    computer in order to transfer the book to its memory. Once a book is downloaded, the computer
    or e-book device uses special software to display the text for reading. Most e-book devices run
    on batteries so they can be taken anywhere, like a printed book. The text is displayed on a backlit
    screen for easier reading. Controls allow the reader to scroll up and down and to move forward
    and back in the text. Depending on battery technology and screen features, some devices can
    provide 40 or more hours of reading time before recharging.

    E-books and e-book devices have several advantages over traditional printed books. E-book
    devices can hold the texts of many different books at one time, making them popular with
    students or professionals who have to carry or consult many reference materials, technical
    manuals, or textbooks. Many devices also allow the reader to select from various type sizes,
    search the text, switch quickly between books, and access stored reference works to look up
    unfamiliar words or concepts. Because they lack the high costs of printing and distribution, e-
    books also have the potential to yield greater profits for publishers and authors. In addition, more
    and more first-time authors or those who write on lesser-known topics have turned to e-books to
    get their books published.

    E-books also have potential disadvantages, some of which might be addressed as technology
    improves. These include the cost of the computer or e-book device, consumer resistance to
    reading on electronic screens, and uncertainty about the business model. Concerns about pricing,
    royalties, illegal copying of texts, and the lack of a single software standard for publishing e-
    books have slowed the rollout of e-books by major publishing companies.

    Despite these issues, bestselling fiction writer Stephen King self-published a novella titled
    Riding the Bullet as an e-book in March 2000. The work became the first successful mass-market
    release of an e-book, generating more than 400,000 downloads at a suggested price of $2.50 per
    copy. However, another e-book experiment by King later in the year—a serialization of a novel
    called The Plant—was not as successful, in part because a voluntary payment system did not
    produce enough paying customers. With the advent of e-books, some experts felt that top authors
    would no longer need a publishing company to market and sell their work.

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