I just read that Stephen King is pimping the Kindle 2. King wrote a story called UR that is available only on the Kindle. Here’s the blurb from UR–a horror story–and you can check it out at Amazon.

Following a nasty break-up, lovelorn college English instructor Wesley Smith can’t seem to get his ex-girlfriend’s parting shot out of his head: “Why can’t you just read off the computer like the rest of us?” Egged on by her question and piqued by a student’s suggestion, Wesley places an order for Amazon.com’s Kindle eReader. The [pink?] device that arrives in a box stamped with the smile logo -via one-day delivery that he hadn’t requested - unlocks a literary world that even the most avid of book lovers could never imagine. But once the door is open, there are those things that one hopes we’ll never read or live through.

You can get King’s novella on February 24, 2009.

For me, that’s the second time I read about King in the news. The first time was when King dissed Stephenie Meyer with the words “she can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” I haven’t read the Twilight series, but I can say the only book I enjoyed reading by King was “Stephen King on Writing.” (If you haven’t read it, do it now.)

I’m not a horror fan, so I’ll definitely skip his story UR. (And there’s the small fact that I don’t even own a Kindle.) I’m still waiting that Amazon takes the price of the Kindle down.

But I wonder, will a true Stephen King fan go to such lengths as to buy the Kindle 2 just to read his story UR?