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Originally Posted by avantman42
I'm guessing that you say they weren't books because they were very short. I'd counter that this was simply a facet of the delivery mechanism (much as some people will say that an ebook isn't really a book). The target audience were very poor, so the stories were split into small chunks, and each chunk was sold for a penny. The first penny dreadful came in 60 parts. If each part was eight pages, that's 480 pages in total. Mysteries of London came in 624 parts and was almost 4.5 million words long.
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The point is just because each installement sold i many copies it does not mean that the thing put together as a book/novel would have sold a lot of copies. So it is not an counterexample of a novel that is badly written and sell a lot.