Stephen King's F13 | A Forgotten Stephen King PC Game or The World's First eBook?
A bad PC game, or a great eBook? The world’s first mass-market eBook was Stephen King's Riding the Bullet, published by Simon & Schuster in 2000. But in 1999, Presto Entertainment and Blue Byte published Stephen King's F13. An interactive CD-ROM featuring Everything’s Eventual.
Stephen King’s F13 was a digital copy of the short story Everything’s Eventual, packaged with a bunch of CD-ROM content as a value-added offering. F13 is the critical mass of everything about this channel. Peak CD-ROM era and mainstream horror.
Too many Stephen King's F13 reviews rag on F13 for being a bad PC game. But F13 isn’t a PC game. This is software, which aims to blur the lines between traditional book publishing and electronic entertainment. It's pushing the boundaries of digital entertainment. It's experimental. If nothing else, this makes Stephen King's F13 a landmark in ebook history. What was the first ebook? Stephen King's F13. This weird old CD-ROM from 1999.
Footnote:
The books sales of The Plant are conjectured on the basis that the first book sold 120,000 copies and the fifth 50,000. I drew a linear path between these two figures.
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