{"id":3323,"date":"2010-11-01T16:22:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T16:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2010-11-04T19:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:34:33","slug":"stephen-king-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/stephen-king-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"stephen king &#038; kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI didn\u2019t do \u2018Ur\u2019 for money. I did it because it was interesting. I\u2019m fairly prolific. It took three days, and I\u2019ve made about $80,000. You can\u2019t get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody else. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d &#8211; Stephen King<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 Stephen King released &#8220;Ur&#8221; &#8211; an exclusive novella he published on the launch of the Kindle 2.   In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304173704575578241730802982.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\"target=_blank>The Wall Street Journal<\/a> King revealed how much he earned on the story.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stephen-King-Ur.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Stephen King Ur\" width=\"326\" height=\"494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stephen-King-Ur.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stephen-King-Ur-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never touched a Kindle.  I do have an iPad &#8211; I subscribe to Press Display and read most of my European newspapers on it.  I&#8217;ve also read the odd short story this way, but no novels yet.  And I&#8217;m not sure I ever will.  Still, the kind of figures King talks about reveal an audience hungry for digital reading. <\/p>\n<p>In a separate interview King made an interesting point when he noted the difference between downloading books and downloading music.  With music, you&#8217;re free to download singles.  Just the songs you like.  You don&#8217;t have to buy the whole album.  With novels it&#8217;s all or nothing.  You don&#8217;t purchase it piecemeal. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t do \u2018Ur\u2019 for money. I did it because it was interesting. I\u2019m fairly prolific. It took three days, and I\u2019ve made about $80,000. You can\u2019t get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody else. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d &#8211; Stephen King In 2009 Stephen King released &#8220;Ur&#8221; &#8211; an exclusive novella he published on<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}