
And so the great ebook experiment comes to an end. Wired News reports that Stephen King has announced the next installation of his serialized ebook, “The Plant,” will be the last. Angry protests from readers have been countered with the fact that by part four of the series, only 46 percent of the people who downloaded the book paid for it. The fact that two more installments were issued after that, the publishers say, more than lives up to their end of the bargain.