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#OnThisDay in 2000, Stephen King, Simon & Schuster, and SoftLock marked a change in the publishing landscape with the release of horror novella Riding the Bullet. King's internet debut was the world's first mass market e-book, available for purchase for just $2.50. SoftLock's servers were jammed and computers crashed as 400,000 copies were downloaded in just 24 hours. #HistoryGetsLIT