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To: Bruce Hampton who wrote (2327)	3/15/2000 12:45:00 PM
From: James Sinclair	Respond to of 6516

Downloading King is a horror show By Globe Staff, 3/15/2000 Horror writer Stephen King's digital publishing experiment may have scared off some readers. At 12:01 a.m. yesterday, the Maine author published his latest story, 'Riding the Bullet,' electronically, making it available on e-books, PCs, and personal digital assistants - for those who could download it. 'We've heard that everybody connected with this has crashed from so much traffic. Our own Web site reached 100 percent capacity,' said Pat Eisemann, a spokeswoman for Scribner, the co-publisher with King's Philtrum Press. The Associated Press reported an attempt to download the 66-page story via Barnes & Noble and Amazon at 10 a.m. had not succeeded by 5 p.m. Efforts to read the story using Glassbook Reader, software that had to be downloaded first, were also met with apologies. In a statement released by his secretary, the best-selling author of more than 30 books said he was 'very excited at the possibility of a new market opening up' but as a 'dedicated and long-term Mac user' was disappointed that the book was not yet Mac compatible. (Eisemann said it would be available on Macs soon). The one distribution success story was Maynard-based company Peanutpress, which was downloading the book to Palm Pilot-type organizers with apparent ease. The firm sold more copies of the story in a few hours than any other title the company has in stock, said Peanutpress's VP of sales Mike Segroves. King's story knocked the current fave of the press's Palm Pilot readers - D.A. Benton's 'The 100,000 Club: How to Earn a Six-Figure Income' - out of the top slot. 'We're going crazy with it,' said Segroves. This story ran on page F2 of the Boston Globe on 3/15/2000.