Simon & Schuster emailed Stephen King readers an interesting promotion offer on October 15, 2011. Readers and listeners can download seven audiobook samples from 11/22/63, King's book about the possibilities that could have happened on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated if a time traveling teacher named Jake Epping interfered with the course of history.
How to Download Audiobook Samples
Book excerpts from will be available on Stephen King's website every Monday through Friday until October 24, 2011. There are seven samples available, and you can stream the files and listen to them without downloading the files. The files can now also be downloaded to your computer. Even earlier samples can be downloaded. Right click "Save as" in the "Listen to the MP3 Sample" and the files will download to the folder that you choose on your computer. You can import the audiobook files into iTunes and they will be automatically converted for your iPhone or iPod.
The samples are from the beginning of the book; all seven chapters will comprise "much of the first chapter of Stephen King's epic tale," according to Simon & Schuster's email, "New Audio Excerpts from Stephen King's 11/22/63." So far, the book appears to be not as much about the Kennedys as about Jake Epping's hesitations and insecurities on how to handle his opportunities, including the opportunity to change history.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Much like American Tabloid by James Ellroy, 11/22/63 seems to show how the Kennedy Assassination affected fictional characters, and the style blends real events with realistic fiction.
King's Mile 81 book has an excerpt from 11/22/63, and it can be read on the official 11/22/63 book website.
In one section of the excerpt, Eppings, is trying to figure out what he'll do "after killing Oswald. Run where? Back to Maine, of course. Hoping I could stay ahead of the cops just long enough to get to the rabbit-hole and escape into a future where Sadie Dunhill would be . . . well . . . about eighty years old." Eppings is an ordinary man in an extraordinary moment with an extraordinary opportunity. Stephen King's book tour to promote 11/22/63 is already in progress and tickets are available.
The new Stephen King book will be released on November 8, 2011, and it can be pre-ordered as an ebook and an audiobook. The audiobook of 11/22/63 will be published by Simon & Schuster Audio and the ISBN is 144234430X. The Kindle and Nook edition of 11/22/63 will be published by Scribner and sold by Simon and Schuster Digital Sales, and the ISBN and ASIN will vary by stores for the digital ebook.
Alex Sharp - Alex Sharp is a teacher who has been keeping Suite101 readers up to date with the latest in audio- and e-book gadgetry since 2008.
