A question for the allknowing hordes of LJ

[triskellian]

Can anyone remember the name of (or point me at a website about) Stephen King's experiment in writing chapters on a submission basis? I've been trying to find it, but have yet to come up with the search terms that will provide me with this information. LJ in "bettter than Google" shock, I hope.

(If anyone knows of similar tech-enabling-publishing type experiments, I'd be glad to hear of those, too, although that probably counts as getting you guys to do my homework for me ;-)

Edit: Aha! It's called The Plant. Thanks, undyingking!

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

This article may be relevant:
"But today, on your Web site, I read about your latest brilliant idea: not just selling books digitally, but selling them chapter by chapter. You wrote that you've had this book, "The Plant," languishing for almost 20 years, and you now think that to revive it you should invite readers to pay $1 to download each "episode" of the story from your Web site, at roughly 5,000 words a pop."

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the other paradigmatic example I guess is Geoff Ryman's 253 which existed as a website "novel" for some time before being eventually published in book form?

[onyxblue1.livejournal.com]

So you're not talking about The Green Mile, that he published serially in paperback form?

And, yes, I shelled out the dough for it. I am a chump.

[several-bees.livejournal.com]

If anyone knows of similar tech-enabling-publishing type experiments, I'd be glad to hear of those, too, although that probably counts as getting you guys to do my homework for me

Well, I could send you an early draft of my thesis on online fiction - the current draft is too much of a mess - but it's 25,000 words so that might be more than you need.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

BTW if you want an insight into my |337 searching strategies, the Salon article is on the first page of Google results for stephen king subscription novel...