"Bad Little Kid": New short story (French/German only - for now)

[herbertwest]

Very good question actually.
I believe that the book will be available via kobo, kindle & ibooks... but yeah maybe there will be a territorial restriction the same way ebay does (and it's always freaking doing my head-in!!!!).

Maybe amazon.com will offer it?
Wait and see I guess.

[Stockerlone]

Cost´s for the German Böser Kleiner Junge Kindle editon EUR 1,99
http://www.amazon.de/B%C3%B6ser-klei...e+stephen+king

[Randall Flagg]

The story will be available soon in the USA. Obviously King wrote it in English.

[dnemec]

The story will be available soon in the USA. Obviously King wrote it in English.

An excellent point!

[herbertwest]

Cost´s for the German Böser Kleiner Junge Kindle editon EUR 1,99
http://www.amazon.de/B%C3%B6ser-klei...e+stephen+king

Really? It will be 3.99€ in France...

The story will be available soon in the USA. Obviously King wrote it in English.

Surely the story will be published, sooner or later, in english.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Surely the story will be published, sooner or later, in english.

I predict 5 minutes after it goes on sale in French/German. (That's how long Google takes to translate.) It will be in print form 5 minutes later. (I have a slow printer.)

[mae]

I wouldn't want to read a back-translation. If this won't be released on its own, surely it will be part of the next collection.

[Bev Vincent]

It's been a long time since I've read in French at any length, but I find this translation very easy to understand. There were a few words I had to look up, but not many.

[herbertwest]

Surely the story will be published, sooner or later, in english.

I predict 5 minutes after it goes on sale in French/German. (That's how long Google takes to translate.) It will be in print form 5 minutes later. (I have a slow printer.)

That would be ugly though...

[Ari_Racing]

Facts (IMHO):

* The story will be published in English (and other languages), sooner or later. As far as I know, it'll be on 2015, but that might change eventually. (This one is a fact. The Spanish publisher already aims to release it in Spanish at the begining of 2015).

* There will be fan made translations and Google-made ones. The first ones will probably suck, but later ones will be more accurate. And I guess that these will start to circulate less than a week after the German and French release.

* Despite the restrictions that might apply, the story will be available for pirate download anywhere less than 48 hours after its release.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

* Despite the restrictions that might apply, the story will be available for pirate download anywhere less than 48 hours after its release.

I think you mean minutes

[herbertwest]

* There will be fan made translations and Google-made ones. The first ones will probably suck, but later ones will be more accurate. And I guess that these will start to circulate less than a week after the German and French release.

I think that the first are more likely to be better than a simple Google-made translations

[Ari_Racing]

No, I mean that the first translations will suck and later ones (corrected) will be more accurate.

[Stockerlone]

Midnight... bought.... Böser kleiner Junge

[Bev Vincent]

I see that the French version is available at Amazon.ca but they won't sell it to me because my Amazon account is in the US. C'est dommage.

[Stockerlone]

Nice short story, nothing super special but i like it !!!

I realy wanna see a drawn version from the Böser kleiner Junge, maybe from Vinny Chong or Glenn Chadbourne.

[Ari_Racing]

As I said, the book is already available for free download in several websites.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

The French word count is 16,410. The English is 15,080. So its quite a bit longer than I expected.

[Niels]

Mr. RT, how do you know the english word count?

[Randall Flagg]

Mr. RT, how do you know the english word count?

He took math classes...
The French are verbose and usually use ~8.1% more words than necessary.

[Niels]

Mr. RT, how do you know the english word count?

He took math classes...
The French are verbose and usually use ~8.1% more words than necessary.

That's one rule I didn't know........

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

Mr. RT, how do you know the english word count?

I clicked on "Word Count" in my Microsoft Word English edition.

[herbertwest]

You should change a major thing on the cover though : take off Stephen King, and change it to GOOGLE TRANSLATE ;-)

[Darkday]

The German version has 14,900 words, so my guess for the English original is 14,500 to 14,700 words.

Unfortunately, I found the story rather disappointing. It's a run-of-the-mill horror story, well written, but uninspired.

[Bev Vincent]

I learned something new by reading Sale Gosse -- apparently in French, people refer to the onset of a woman's period by saying "the English are landing on the shore" (les Anglais débarquaient tous les mois), a reference to the English as "redcoats" and the historical animosity between England and France!