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John
November 10 - NYC (this event is already sold out)
November 11 - still being decided whether D.C. or Baltimore
November 13 - Atlanta (yes, we know it's a Friday )
November 16 - Sarasota
November 18 - Minneapolis
November 19 - Toronto
December 1 - Portsmouth, NH
December 2 - Manchester, VT
Where did you get this info from Bev? Is there a link?
Thanks for the info!
Hopefully the strike will be over by then!
(Alas, no, I don't get to go)
NYC - on stage, no book signing, 250 pre-signed books
D.C./Baltimore - book signing, no on stage event
Atlanta - book signing, no on stage event
Sarasota - on stage, no book signing, 250 pre-signed books
Minneapolis - on stage, no book signing, 250 pre-signed books
Toronto - on stage, no book signing, 250 pre-signed books
Portsmouth, NH - on stage, no book signing, 250 pre-signed books
Manchester Center, VT - on stage, and book signing
Too bad.
According to the Simon & Schuster web site, the eBook version will be released on January 01, 2010.
MsMod says today that this will be in a fall issue of the magazine.
As part of a tour supporting his forthcoming novel, "Under the Dome," author Stephen King will be in Manchester on Dec. 2 as a guest of the Northshire Bookstore.
Northshire event coordinator Linda Ellingsworth called it "the mother of all book signings."
"It's obviously thrilling. The people here said it's probably been 15 years since he's been back here," Ellingsworth said.
"It's always exciting when a writer of his stature comes through Vermont. The tough thing is going to be getting in the door (of the signing,)" Bissette said.
Given this unusual opportunity, Bissette said he hoped people who planned to attend would come up with some good questions for King.
Ellingsworth said the bookstore would probably create a separate page on its Web site to promote the event. Tickets may be available as early as the first week in August.
>>> Rutland Herald
“Under the Dome”: The $200 Edition
Book publishers will take their money where they can get it these days.
Stephen King and his long-time publisher intend to sell 1,500 copies of a signed, limited edition of his upcoming “Under the Dome” to his most fervent collectors at $200 a pop.
“We’re doing this to generate additional revenue,” says Susan Moldow, publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Scribner imprint. “We used to have a regular business of signed first edition mysteries, but we stopped because there wasn’t an additional mark-up.”
There will be this time: Presuming all 1,500 sell out, the print run will generate $300,000, to be divvied up between Mr. King and Scribner. Ms. Moldow declined to elaborate on the profit split, saying, “We have a unique joint venture with Steve, the terms of which we don’t disclose. But he does well.”
She said the book will be available shortly for pre-ordering from Simon & Schuster’s Web site, as well as a site operated by Mr. King.
“This is fighting back against the disappearance of the book as an object,” she adds. The novel goes on sale Nov. 10. Efforts to reach Mr. King were unsuccessful.
On his Web site, Mr. King offers this teaser about the novel’s plot:
“On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.
“Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.”[/td]
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This fall, Stephen King and his publisher, Scribner, will make autographed first editions of his new novel "Under the Dome" available on their websites for $200 apiece. They plan to sell up to 1500 copies of the signed books.
"This is fighting back against the disappearance of the book as an object," Susan Moldow, publisher of Scribner, told the Wall Street JournaI.
Who, exactly, are they fighting? If it's the emergence of the ebook and readers such as Amazon's Kindle, it seems Stephen King's target is ... Stephen King.
When Amazon announced the next-generation Kindle 2 in February, King was the only author to join Jeff Bezos on stage. He'd written a Kindle-only story, "UR," which debuted with the new device (it's since been released in audio too). King is so Kindle-friendly that instead of the standard white plastic version, Amazon made him a pink Kindle 2, to match the one that appears in "UR."
It seems less like King is taking an, er, stand against disappearing books than he is a polymorphic writer, one happy to explore any and all forms of publication. He's written a Web-only series, novellas, serial novels, poems, essays, short stories, really big books and comic books, and welcomed film adaptations of his work. Maybe when a writers is as prolific as Stephen King, he seeks to get his writing out to readers whichever way he can.
Due to hit shelves Nov. 10, "Under the Dome" is another of King's kind of scary, kind of sci-fi book set in Maine.
Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 7 pm
Manchester Elementary-Middle School
80 Memorial Ave.
Manchester Center, VT 05255
Tickets to go on sale Sept. 1 at 10 am
Can be purchased by phone or in the store (we will have a special number set up by 9/1, and will let you know what that number is)
Ticket pricing:
$50 – includes a signed copy of Under the Dome and preferred seating (250 available)
$5 – General admission (550 available)
Only purchasers of a $50 ticket will get a signed copy of the new book. Mr. King will not be signing any other books. Unsigned copies of Under the Dome and other Stephen King books will be available for purchase.
John
Doesn't look thick from that view.