Post by account_disabled on Dec 29, 2023 18:31:15 GMT -9
Many writers made fortunes from dime novels , earning as much as $1,000 per story, although lesser-known authors received a fee of as little as $50. Prentiss Ingraham was a prolific author: she wrote 600 novels about the figure of Buffalo Bill for Beadle. Before becoming a writer Ingraham had an adventurous life: a Confederate scout in the Civil War, he was captured and managed to escape. After the war he continued to fight in conflicts in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. Upon his return to the United States he went West and in 1884 met William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, working as his agent for the Wild West Show. The decline of dime novels Novels had a very specific formula and one of the reasons for the decline of dime novels was that over time the stories ended up becoming predictable. Another factor was the increase in postage by a cent or two, which reduced sales revenue.
But the interests of readers also changed, mainly cinema which, at more or less the same price as dime novels , offered new entertainment. The future of dime novels Maybe it's true that there is a time for everything. The dime novels were born in a very specific historical period: it was a period of discoveries and exploratory expeditions, but also of wars and social changes. Would there be room for another cheap literature today? And how much “money” should it cost? On newsstands there are almost always Special Data collections of novels, but first and foremost nothing new and not exactly "cheap". I recently purchased a series of western novels, one of Simenon's mysteries on Inspector Maigret and a second series of other novels by him, the series of novels on Arsene Lupine and finally the one on 20th century American mysteries. The cost varied from 6 to 8 euros and they are all paperback or paperback books with flaps, in any case economic editions, even if they cannot be considered dime novels due to the price.
The weekly books of 1965 On Ebay I purchased some novels from the Mondadori "Gli Oscar Weekly" series. Released starting from 27 April 1965, the publishing house defined them as "transistor books that make a library". The cover price was 350 lire, which corresponds to around 3.50/3.60 euros today. The price of a comic book. Certainly not an attempt to bring back the dime novels , because they were reprints of novels already released, but we're there in terms of price. Dime novels of the 21st century Delos Books, in a certain sense, is publishing "cheap literature", with its many genre fiction series produced in ebook and sold at the price of 0.99 or 1.99 euros. They are not all novels, but many are long stories, so there is not yet, at least in Italy, a publication of new novels on newsstands at a cost of around 3 euros.
But the interests of readers also changed, mainly cinema which, at more or less the same price as dime novels , offered new entertainment. The future of dime novels Maybe it's true that there is a time for everything. The dime novels were born in a very specific historical period: it was a period of discoveries and exploratory expeditions, but also of wars and social changes. Would there be room for another cheap literature today? And how much “money” should it cost? On newsstands there are almost always Special Data collections of novels, but first and foremost nothing new and not exactly "cheap". I recently purchased a series of western novels, one of Simenon's mysteries on Inspector Maigret and a second series of other novels by him, the series of novels on Arsene Lupine and finally the one on 20th century American mysteries. The cost varied from 6 to 8 euros and they are all paperback or paperback books with flaps, in any case economic editions, even if they cannot be considered dime novels due to the price.
The weekly books of 1965 On Ebay I purchased some novels from the Mondadori "Gli Oscar Weekly" series. Released starting from 27 April 1965, the publishing house defined them as "transistor books that make a library". The cover price was 350 lire, which corresponds to around 3.50/3.60 euros today. The price of a comic book. Certainly not an attempt to bring back the dime novels , because they were reprints of novels already released, but we're there in terms of price. Dime novels of the 21st century Delos Books, in a certain sense, is publishing "cheap literature", with its many genre fiction series produced in ebook and sold at the price of 0.99 or 1.99 euros. They are not all novels, but many are long stories, so there is not yet, at least in Italy, a publication of new novels on newsstands at a cost of around 3 euros.