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...best-selling author of good old-fashioned books, Stephen King has always seen the promise inherent in the Internet. It's a medium designed to get as much content to as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time. And there are few people who have as much content as King. In 2000, he debuted his novella Riding the Bullet exclusively on the Web; more than 400,000 downloads were recorded in the first 24 hours. At the time it was a staggering number. This month, King is dipping his toe into the Internet yet again. To promote...
Running at two minutes per "episode" until Aug. 29 (for a total running time of about 50 minutes), N. is accessible through its website (nishere.com), available for purchase at iTunes and Amazon, and even downloadable to cell phones - ironic, given that in King's recent novel Cell, the mobile-phone network became a conduit for a global pandemic. The experiment is an example of the kind of outside-the-box thinking that publishers have had to engage in to try to reverse a steep decline in readers...
...guests, many wearing fluorescent red stars, the SOHO corporate symbol, stood on the grounds of the Commune, sipping champagne and listening to rock bands and rappers alike - at one point the guests dancing, memorably, to the version of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech set to a hip-hop beat. You wouldn't hear that in the Forbidden City...
Elvis Presley The Complete '68 Comeback Special; available now When they say complete, they mean it. The first disc is an expanded version of the NBC special that ended the King's seven-year absence from live performing. The three others are bluesier, messier and, despite a crackling Are You Lonesome Tonight? and some very strange banter, inessential...
...order to do things right. Inevitably, that point will follow a great new opportunity, like the presidential forum and the possibilities it embodies. I ask Warren what Bible verse he will take into the forum, and he quotes David's words after God has secured his position as the King of Israel - "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me so far?" - and David's subsequent realization that God did it for the sake of His word and according to His will. It is a humble response, one that puts Warren...