One of the reasons Dickens and others got paid by the word was because many
of their works were originally written as serializations for weekly or
monthly publications. It was also a way for publishers to handle new
unknown authors just breaking into the market, rather than having to deal
with paying royalties.
Dave
Yep Charles Dickens also got paid by the word for a lot of his novels. Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and Bleak House for three.
And Les Miserabs by Victor Hugo, was originally a set, and so he goes into graphic and extreme detail about the Battle at Waterloo, sigh.
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> The problem with it, and a lot of the novels of that > day was they got paid > by the word. sigh. > That's interesting. I didn't know that.
I liked ths story when I read it in college. I just didn't like the dissertation on whales, which, of course, is one of the things that's supposed to be make it an important book.
Cindy
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