[dr_lew]

2 words: Newspaper Serial.

Where do you get this? I never heard of it, and I don't see it on a quick check, which indicates it was introduced as a completed book.

[vbmoneyspender]

Publishing serials dates to the earliest days of American and British journalism and was especially prominent in the early- to mid-19th century. Perhaps the best-known serialized novel in the United States was Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," published in 1850.