A King puts it “My friends, we have a chance to become Big Publishing’s worst nightmare. Not only are we going glueless, look Ma, no e-Book! No tiresome encryption! Want to print it and show it to a friend? Go ahead!”.

This is absolutely wonderful. I’m glad someone, especially someone of the caliber of Stephen King has the bollocks to pull this off. Another truly COOL thing is that all of this is on the “honor system” as King puts it. To quote him more directly “Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy!”.

This is the first part of the story, and it is only $1. That’s it. However, if King doesn’t receive 75% of payments for the first part, the second part will not be released. This could set a precedent for future downloads of literature and/or music on the web. Frankly, i think this is GREAT. Absolutely wonderful. Kudos to King on this one.