Internet Horror Story

Wed., March 15, 2000

Stephen King became an e-author Tuesday with his latest work, a short story titled “Riding the Bullet.” But the real horror was trying to download the piece. Web sites including Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com became swamped by high demand for the 66-page ghost story. “All the servers have reached 100 percent capacity and gone over several times today,” said Pat Eisemann, a spokeswoman for Scribner, the co-publisher with King’s Philtrum Press. “Everybody is pretty much crashing and you can’t get through.” The story went online at several Web sites at 12:01 a.m. at a cost of $2.50, although Barnes & Noble made it available for free on Tuesday and Amazon has no plans to charge for the download, a company spokeswoman said.

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