Iron Flame, Victorian Dime Novels, & the "Fast Fashion" Problem in Publishing ????????‍♀️

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Turns out, trashy novels are just as much a part of the American literature legacy as the "classics"...

If you wanna read some dime novels, Northern Illinois University has a nice searchable database: https://dimenovels.lib.niu.edu/

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????*References...*(wooboy ????)
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-08/fourth-wing-and-iron-flame-author-rebecca-yarros-needs-a-reality-check?embedded-checkout=true

Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90722994/how-book-lovers-on-tiktok-are-changing-the-publishing-industry

Publisher's Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/88225-print-book-sales-rose-8-9-in-2021.html & https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92242-penguin-random-house-sourcebooks-buy-callisto-assets.html

Publishing Perspective: https://publishingperspectives.com/2019/05/sourcebooks-and-penguin-random-house-in-collaborative-partnership-prh-45-percent/

Entangled Publishing: https://www.entangledpublishing.com/about-us

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/dining/cookbook-publishing.html?searchResultPosition=1

Wordsrated: https://wordsrated.com/impact-of-book-publishing-on-environment/#:~:text=For%20the%20US%20alone%2C%20the,largest%20industrial%20greenhouse%20gas%20emitter.

Variety: https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/iron-flame-misprint-apology-fourth-wing-publisher-1235787765/?fbclid=PAAabeu-n39biLa4-LgAozOuTW9kziznxQXCoC7MsuRp4OH02PODwtTge3EC0_aem_ATzaTXcrHGRCVgIpuU5DHE1u8DYlfpqcatEV3ssr67D1cU3R4SgJqAPMArzj4IyjodQ

Bloomsbury Stockholders Report via Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilystheories/video/7309885802102787330?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7176729631919228458

From Submission to Acquisition: https://mikechenwriter.medium.com/from-submission-to-acquisition-what-happens-after-you-get-a-literary-agent-c5c44688a5a0

Impact of Fast Fashion on the Environment: https://psci.princeton.edu/tips/2020/7/20/the-impact-of-fast-fashion-on-the-environment

Fashion Fashion: https://www.fush.rs/news/fast-fashion/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20biggest%20problem,million%20belongs%20to%20fast%20fashion.

Vox: https://www.vox.com/culture/22687960/book-shortage-paper-ink-printing-labor-explained

Michael Denning, "Cheap Stories: Notes on Popular Fiction and Working-Class Culture in 19th Century America" https://www.jstor.org/stable/4288715

Rebecca Wingo, "The Forgotten Era: Race and Gender in Ann Stephens's Dime Novel Frontier" https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/fronjwomestud.38.3.0121

Newspaper and magazine clippings are taken from ProQuest, Gale Nineteenth-Century Collections Online, and Archive.org.

Chapters:

00:00 - 02:20 - OoOhH Drama!
02:21 - 09:53 - The (Feminine) History of the Dime Novel
09:54 - 16:16 - Snobbery & Elitism in American Literature
16:17 - 28:13 - How Modern Publishing Works
28:14 - 38:41 - Does Publishing have a "Fast Fashion" Problem?
38:42 - 39:53 - I'm a mess.


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