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From: rsu@cbscc.UUCP (Rick Urban)
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Subject: Re: Stephen King
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Date: Wed, 10-Apr-85 08:21:35 EST
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	For the sake of clarification, the King book we are talking about is
"The DARK Tower", not "The BLACK Tower". As to its availability, I think it
originally had 10,000 copies in print. When "Pet Sematary" was published,
"The Dark Tower" was included in the list of books by King printed in the
front of the book. The demand for the book was so great that an additional
printing of 10,000 copies was made. As far as I know, there will be no
further reprintings, so good luck in finding a copy (I'm not giving up mine!)

	I don't mean to get anyone's hopes up, but there was never supposed
to be a second printing of the book, but it happened anyway. Also, there
was a reprinting of "Cycle of the Werewolf" recently by New American Library,
while my understanding was that the edition put out by the Land of Enchant-
ment Press was to be the only one. Call it greed or public demand, there
have been efforts to make King's less mainstream works available to the
public, though I doubt if mass market editions of "The Dark Tower" are on
the horizon. Try your local library, or a used/rare bookstore.


						Rick Urban
						AT&T Network Systems
						Columbus, Ohio
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	P. S. Some people have asked me where I get my information. Well,
let's see:
	Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,
Library Journal, The West Coast Review of Books, Variety, The Hollywood
Reporter, Starlog, Fangoria, Cinefantastique, Starburst, Booklist, Viking
Books, New American Library, Putnam Publishing Group, Douglas Winter's
"Stephen King: The Art of Darkness", Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine,
Forthcoming Books in Print, Jerry Boyajian, and any other miscellaneous
publication or person I come across who can provide me with arcane bits of
information, about Stephen King or anything else!