Talk:Dime novel

message: I seem to remember from my studies in American history that penny dreadfuls here were nasty letters sent through the mail at the payment (one penny) of the recipient. Since the recipient paid for the insult, they were especially frustrating. I'm still looking for a web reference for this. --Davidstrauss 15:34, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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message: PBS American Experience on Kit Carson says (8 'graphs above end of "Scene Four")
:in 1849, came a new literary hero, Kit Carson: The Prince of the Gold Hunters -- a giant of a man who referred to Indians as "redskins," "critters" and "varmints," and cheerfully slaughtered them by the dozen.
: Written by an East Coast hack who claimed it had been "founded on actual facts," the book was a smash hit. Almost overnight, it became the template for a brand new genre of adventure stories -- hair-raising, action-packed and set in the uncharted wilds of the far West. Americans called them "blood and thunders."
Seems to me i recall from the visual that accompanied these words a display of actual publications, at least one with the title "Blood and Thunder". --Jerzy•t 08:28, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blood and Thunders 

message: I have added a dispute tag to the section that claims that there is a resurgence of the dime novel.  The opening sentence, "2010 saw the resurgence of the dime novel format" is not supported by refs, runs contrary to the rest of the article, and seems like a puff piece for the e-book industry.  I removed this section but it was re-added by a contributor whose only edits concern this section. Comments appreciated. Thanks.--Dmol (talk) 22:38, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I am sympathetic to including the resurgence section, Dmol is right that, to be included, the resurgence needs to be supported by some reliable 3rd party references other than the companies puffing their product.  Plazak (talk) 01:20, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps the solution is to remove the links? If the contributor really thinks that the addition of the "resurgence" is important to study of the genre, then that is the important information, not the links. Although I had never heard of any "resurgence" ouside of this article, so it smacks of original research to me. Chris La Mantia (talk) 06:17, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Also worthy of note is that the contributor, jnthibeault, recently posted on twithelp.me: "Starting the PR machine for Dime Novel Publishing. Got any suggestions for who to contact? We've got a list but personal intros would help! Asked by: jnthibeault Tue, 13 Apr 2010" (see http://twithelp.me/profile/jnthibeault/) Chris La Mantia (talk) 06:21, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Third party validation is provided of this "resurrgence:" http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2010-09-30-Bookap30_ST_N.htm as well as the launch by Amazon of Amazon Singles, focused on serialized fiction --jnthibeault (talk) 7:39, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In a quick scan of the USA Today link referred to above, I did not see where it even contains the phrase "dime novel". Instead, it compares the current serialized digital fiction format to the magazine-serialed novels by 19th-sectury novelists such as Dickens, which is very different from the dime novel format. Plazak (talk) 18:16, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "resurgence of the dime novel format". 

message: Is the page size right? Because I'm pretty sure single pages aren't 4" high! Or is that supposed to be 4" wide?  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  05:28, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size matters 

message: Dime store novel redirects here, but the article doesn't mention the phrase dime store at all. WhiteDragon (talk) 20:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dime store novel 

message: I found this book online from University of California Press which looks like a good resource for this article. American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culturehttp://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt467nc622;brand=ucpress by Shelley Streeby. If someone wants to mine it before I have a chance to. Jaldous1 (talk) 23:26, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Re last paragraph: While Alexis de Tocqueville’s prescient predictions are, indeed, fascinating, this last para to me reads likes someone’s school thesis shoe-horned into a topic where it’s not truly relevant to the actual topic (dime novels). The tone and POV also are a departure from everything in the preceding (and following) paras. It seems to me this para could be deleted without any loss of info actually germane to dime novels. Or, at best, if it’s left in, it should be greatly cut down. Anyone else agree? I’d rather not edit this without consensus. Opinions anyone? Cynthisa (talk) 20:05, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section