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It is not online and I don't know if it ever will be.
Today Stephen King’s UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton launches the biggest ever game of literary hide-and-seek. His much-awaited epic novel UNDER THE DOME, featuring over 100 characters and running to 336,114 words, has been broken into more than 5,000 snippets (scattered across hundreds of websites and locations throughout the UK) as a way to celebrate the breadth of this masterpiece and to give fans a one-off opportunity to piece the book back together before its general release on 10th November.
Extracts of the book have been hidden across Stephen King fansites as well as horror, thriller and lifestyle websites, and offline. Fans are invited to continue this hiding process and also to find the snippets using the clues given on www.stephenking.co.uk and deliver them back to the website.
UNDER THE DOME is King’s most epic creation since THE STAND. The story explores what happens to a Maine town when an invisible barrier suddenly seals it off from the rest of the world, in a perfect example of a King thriller.
Speaking of the book, Stephen King comments:
“I tried this once before when I was a lot younger, but the project was just too big for me. But it was a terrific idea and it never entirely left my mind . . . and every now and then it would say write me, and eventually I did. I sure hope people like it.”
More on the hide-and-seek
As pieces are found they will appear on www.stephenking.co.uk, enabling fans to move them around and link them together to form bigger sections of the book. Also on the site are clues to help ‘seekers’ find text and a forum for fans to discuss the snippets they’ve found.
All those playing the game to uncover this hidden masterpiece will be entered into a draw to win a weekend in a London hotel to read a limited edition copy of the book the weekend before its general release. Closing date is 6th November.
A creative writing competition also gives aspiring novelists the chance to have a 2,000-word piece of work judged by King himself.
The final pieces of the book will be released on Saturday, 7th November at a stunt in London, giving players a last-minute chance to piece together more snippets.
For a chance to win the UNDER THE DOME hide-and-seek competition, visit www.stephenking.co.uk Clues and news are also available on Twitter (@under_the_dome) and Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=155501074886
Book Battle Between Wal-Mart, Amazon Escalates
John
Publishers typically sell hardcover books to retailers at half the list price, while retailers set consumer prices. Most of the books discounted by Wal-Mart, Target and Amazon are listed at a minimum of $24. Mr. King’s novel has a list price of $35. At $8.99 or $8.98, that is about 75 percent off the list price.
When the price war began last week, Mr. King said he was “gobsmacked” by this turn of events, comparing it to gas stations in the 1970s that tried to undercut one another penny by penny.
Also, it won't be released until 12/24.
SK is quoted in this EW.com article about selling Under the Dome for $9 and the delay of the e-book to 12/24 thusly:
In an exclusive comment to EW, the author himself was more blunt [about the delay]: “It’s time to give the smaller bookstores a little breathing room (although not much chance of that, with Walmart offering Dome for nine bucks.)”
On Thursday, October 29th, the Under the Dome book trailer will premiere exclusively on EW.com and EW's Shelf Life Blog for one day only.
On Friday, October 30th, EW.com and EW's Shelf Life Blog will launch a short video of Stephen reading the first few pages of Under the Dome. This is also a one-day exclusive.