Amazon to Reissue Dickens Novels in Original Serial Format

At a press event in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, Amazon announced it would be re-issusing the novels of Charles Dickens in the same serial format they were originally released in. There's one big difference, of course: Amazon will be publishing them as digital files to be sold through its Kindle store.

Dickens issued many of his most famous works, including Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist, as part of weekly and monthly installments over the course of one to two years. Some were published as independent singles, others appeared in the pages of magazines. Many were illustrated. Today, Dickens's works are typically bundled and distributed as thick, single-volume novels.

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