Have serials made a come back? That's the giga-zillion question today. Now for all you out there that do not read, let me explain. A serial is book (a novel if you will) that is released in regularly scheduled parts, usually once a week, or as often as once a day. Like a TV series, the book is presented as one part of the whole, and you have to read each part as it comes, or wait for the novel version. At one time many, many books (or works of literature) were published this way (Charles Dickens is known for his serial publications). Some were then repackaged into a collection known as a novel, but many were not until much later. It is not that a full length work such as a novel is bad, or that it is something really new, but the serial seems to had faded, but maybe not. The Return of the Serial The serial is making a comeback on the world wide web. I see blogs that act very much like serials, and some are specifically designed to be very ...
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