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Originally Posted by Apache
So no one after 1860 had nothing important to say and did not write "real books"?
Not to mention that authors used to be paid by the word and would pad their books to increase their payments. 
Apache |
A number of the old classics were edited down in their modern popular book form from the original serialized form, both to get rid of the fluff as well as to get rid of the repeated information that one needs so those who missed an installment won't be left out.
Dumas was reported to have a team of ghostwriters to flesh out his novels in part to maximize his revenue by expanding the number of words.