People ride the bullet train from Tokyo, pass through a long tunnel in the mountains west of the capital and emerge in Niigata, one of the richest rice-growing regions in the country.
Japan remains a country where women still leave their handbags unattended in restaurants and office workers ride the bullet train and go to sleep without worrying about their briefcases.
Adobe countered this week by acquiring Glassbook, the tiny Waltham, Mass., company whose Glassbook Reader software was used for Ride the Bullet.
E-books have been in the works for several years, but the phenomenon really took off in March when Simon & Schuster released Stephen King's Ride the Bullet exclusively as an e-book.
King was stunned by the success of "Riding the Bullet".
Around 500,000 people downloaded "Riding the Bullet" in its first 48 hours online.
STEPHEN KING, a horror writer, raised bibliophiles' eyebrows earlier this year with a novella called "Riding the Bullet".
But reading "Riding the Bullet," I sorely missed the solidity of good old print on paper.
After Stephen King published his novella "Riding the Bullet" exclusively in digital form, others swiftly followed suit.
"Riding the Bullet" is the novella that Mr. King published in electronic form.
