And I'd like to see if we can't reeducate these people to the idea that the fruits of talent cost you money. So far, his bet seemed to be paying off. Marsha DeFilippo, an aide who is working with King on the project, said early yesterday there had been about 34,000 downloads and that about 75 percent of the consumers were paying their dollar right away by credit card.
Readers also have the option of mailing payments to a post office box.
If you pay, the story rolls. I love the smell of glue. Simon and Schuster, which worked closely with King on his previous electronic publishing effort, a novella for hand-held devices that sold more than half a million copies in March, says it doesn't mind being left out on the distribution of The Plant . We're confident that publishers add enough value to the process that authors are still going to want to use them. Other publishing industry insiders also see King's experiment as just that - a testing of the waters by a hugely popular author rather than a blueprint for what's to come for all writers.