Editing Riding the Bullet (section)

==Publication==
During the first 24 hours, over 400,000 copies of ''Riding the Bullet'' were downloaded, jamming SoftLock's server.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=6358 |title= eBooks are Here to Stay| author=De Abrew, Karl |website=Adobe.com|date=April 24, 2000| access-date= December 15, 2009}}</ref> Some Stephen King fans waited hours for the download.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june00/e-books_sidebar.html |title=The Business of EBooks|work= News Hour with Jim Lehrer transcript|publisher=PBS|date=March 16, 2000|access-date=December 15, 2009}}</ref>

With over 500,000 downloads, Stephen King seemed to pave the way for the future of publishing. The actual number of readers was unclear because the encryption caused countless computers to crash.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000813mag-king.html?scp=10&sq=riding%20the%20bullet&st=cse |title=What is Stephen King trying to prove?|work=New York Times Magazine|date=August 13, 2000| access-date=December 15, 2009}}</ref>

The total financial gross of the electronic publication remains uncertain. Initially offered at $2.50 by SoftLock and then Simon & Schuster, it was later available free for download from [[Amazon.com|Amazon]] and [[Barnes & Noble]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/ec1226.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010420095851/http://www.businessweek.com/ebiz/0012/ec1226.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 20, 2001 |title= For Softlock, the Rights Stuff Wasn't Good Enough|author=Ferguson, Kevin Ferguson| work=Business Week|date=December 26, 2000| access-date=December 15, 2009}}</ref>

In 2009, [[Lonely Road Books]] announced the impending release of ''Riding the Bullet: The Deluxe Special Edition Double'', by [[Stephen King]] and [[Mick Garris]],<ref>{{cite web|website=Lonely Road Books|url=http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/riding-the-bullet/|title=Riding the Bullet|date=May 8, 2013 }}</ref> as an oversized [[slipcase]]d hardcover bound in the [[flip book]] or [[tête-bêche]] format (like an [[List of Ace double novels|Ace Double]]) featuring the novella ''Riding the Bullet'', the original script for the [[Riding the Bullet (film)|eponymous 2004 film]] by [[Mick Garris]], and artwork by [[Alan M. Clark]] and [[Bernie Wrightson]]. The book was available in three editions:
* Collector's Gift Edition: limited to 3000 slipcased copies (not signed)
* Limited Edition of 500 copies (signed by Mick Garris and the artist)
* Lettered Edition of 52 copies (signed by Stephen King)