Showing posts with label stephen king. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stephen king. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

Stephen King's Summer Reading List

From:
(title unknown) via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 5/17/09:
Stephen King recommends seven great reads for summer

Monday, April 13, 2009

Collection Alert!

From:
(title unknown) via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 4/12/09

"Lots of book news this week, including the announcement of the posthumous publication of two Michael Crichton novels, the first of which will be The Pirate Latitudes coming out in November, a year after Crichton’s death from cancer. "

"The really big news is that Stephen King has finally, after 25 years, finished a novel called Under the Dome. The book, which is said to be over a thousand pages long, will be published in November, and concerns a city that is suddenly isolated by an invisible dome that can’t be penetrated. King said, the new novel “deals with some of the same issues that The Stand does, but in a more allegorical way.”

Monday, March 9, 2009

Stephen King - e-book Win or Fail?

(title unknown) via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 3/8/09

Stephen King’s New Book Available Only As an E-Book
In celebration of the release of Amazon’s Kindle 2, the world’s best known electronic book reader, Stephen King released a novella called UR in digital form only. Sales figures have not been released, but they are said to be in the five figures so far.

Stephen King has long looked to innovation in form and format in his work. With sales figures rumored to be only in the ten thousands, Kindle may not be the best format. A non-proprietary format could possibly lead to bigger sales