Under the Dome released. We're now officially e-screwed.

[jkeranen]

Under the Dome has gone up in price to $9.99 for the Kindle pre-order.

[Sydney's Mom]

Originally Posted by Constant Reader

I think $9 was the online price, not the store price.

Right. And now the online price is $18. Guess the price war is over!

[HarryT]

If you consider how many hours it's going to take anyone to read it, even $18 is a pretty low price to pay per hour of reading.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by HarryT

If you consider how many hours it's going to take anyone to read it, even $18 is a pretty low price to pay per hour of reading.

The audiobook is 34 hrs and 29 mins.

[Faenad]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Okay, all Stephen King bashing aside, who the hell did the cover for this book, and where can I find them to punch them in the face?

http://www.amazon.com/Under-Dome-Nov...pr_product_top

look for : "The Story Behind the Cover"
Looks like it was King idea. I guess that nobody found the guts to tell him it sucked. It look like something that a self published author could have designed by himself. I like the "collector edition" cover better.

[Faenad]

Btw, is this book based in any way on the Simpson movie? The story plot does look the same.

[Sporadic]

Originally Posted by Faenad

Btw, is this book based in any way on the Simpson movie? The story plot does look the same.

No, he started it and gave up on it twice (once in the 70s and once in the 80s)

Dear SKMBers,

As most of you know, I have a novel coming out in November called Under the Dome. My first effort to write it came in 1978, or thereabouts. That seventy-page manuscript (actually titled Under the Dome) was lost, but after reviewing the stuff I said about it in Douglas Winter’s book, The Art of Darkness (1989), I got thinking about my second effort to write that story, which, as you will find out, deals with people trapped in an increasingly lethal environment.

That second try was mostly written in Pittsburgh, during the filming of Creepshow. I spent two months in a depressing suburban apartment complex that became (with the usual fictional tweaks) the setting for the story. It was called The Cannibals, and this time I got a lot further—almost five hundred pages—before hitting a wall. I assumed the manuscript was lost. Long story short, it turned up—battered, and with some pages missing, but mostly complete—in the summer of 2009. So, for your amusement, and as an appetizer to Under the Dome, here are the first sixty pages or so of The Cannibals, reproduced, warts and all, from the original manuscript which was dredged up by Ms. Mod from a locked cabinet in a back room of my office. I’m amused by the antique quality of the typescript; this may have been the last thing I did on my old IBM Selectric before moving on to a computer system.

There’s another reason for publishing this on the website. Several Internet writers have speculated on a perceived similarity between Under the Dome and The Simpsons Movie, where, according to Wikipedia, Homer’s town of Springfield is isolated inside a large glass dome (probably because of that pesky nuclear power plant). I can’t speak personally to this, because I have never seen the movie, and the similarity came as a complete surprise to me…although I know, from personal experience, that the similarity will turn out to be casual. Unless there’s deliberate copying (sometimes known as “plagiarism”), stories can no more be alike than snowflakes. The reason is simple: no two human imaginations are exactly alike. For the doubters, this excerpt should demonstrate that I was thinking dome and isolation long before Homer, Marge, and their amusing brood came on the scene.

I hope you enjoy this. As always, Ms. Mod and I welcome your comments.

Steve King

http://www.stephenking.com/library/u...ibals_the.html

[Alisa]

I have a question. I don't mean it as a criticism. I'm just curious. Why do people pre-order ebooks? It's not like they're going to sell out or you'll have to wait. Personally, I always get samples and buy the book when I'm done even with an author I like.

[desertgrandma]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I have a question. I don't mean it as a criticism. I'm just curious. Why do people pre-order ebooks? It's not like they're going to sell out or you'll have to wait. Personally, I always get samples and buy the book when I'm done even with an author I like.

Excellent question!!

I rarely do that. However, at $9 this one was a no brainer for me. I knew it would have to go up eventually. Now, when I wake up Christmas Eve or Morning,....it will be there.

Not that I'll start reading it immediately...'sigh.

The price for the Amazon ebook version is already back up to $9.99.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?ur...rds=&x=10&y=24

[junkml]

Is there anywhere doing a pre-order of Under the Dome as an ebook for devices other than the Kindle?

[desertgrandma]

I don't see it at Barnes and Noble or fictionwise.........but you can still preorder at Amazon for your pc.....

[junkml]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I have a question. I don't mean it as a criticism. I'm just curious. Why do people pre-order ebooks? It's not like they're going to sell out or you'll have to wait. Personally, I always get samples and buy the book when I'm done even with an author I like.

I've pre-ordered a couple of ebooks because if I had waited till they were released I would have paid twice as much.

People pre-order ebooks for the same reason they pre-order hardbacks. They want the book ready and waiting when it's released, or they want the deal that's being offered for pre-ordering.

[Daithi]

If I'm certain I want a book then I will pre-order it. That way I don't have to remember what day the book is going to be released. For example, I just received the latest Morganville Vampire book. It is book 6 or 7 in the series, and I liked the previous books in the series, but I wasn't so excited about the book that I was going to remember the release date. Pre-ordering worked great.

[rcuadro]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I have a question. I don't mean it as a criticism. I'm just curious. Why do people pre-order ebooks? It's not like they're going to sell out or you'll have to wait. Personally, I always get samples and buy the book when I'm done even with an author I like.

The reason that I do it is so I can just wake up the morning that it is released and it be there on the Kindle. Though, in all reality, I can purchase it the morning off and have it in about a minute

[Connallmac]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I have a question. I don't mean it as a criticism. I'm just curious. Why do people pre-order ebooks? It's not like they're going to sell out or you'll have to wait. Personally, I always get samples and buy the book when I'm done even with an author I like.

With this one I saw it actually hit $9 as a pre-order and decided to pull the trigger because I didn't figure it would get much cheaper any time soon, and if anything would be likely to increase in price, which I see now that it has, to $9.99.