Talk:Edward Stratemeyer

message: FWDixon/Finnan is a spammer and plagiarist with more than 100 links from Wiki to his web site to sell books on Amazon. (preceding unsigned comment by 69.205.13.193 17:31, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: discussion

message: Yes, there should be a Tom Swift 100th anniversary remebrance   2010 for the first Tom Swift Book Tom Swift And His Motorcycle  1910.  Mr. Starmeyers contribution to Childrens litature is great! !Thanks!(DatedforfilesAMMOrn,Fri.21,200921stcent.Dr.Edson Andre' Johnson D.D.ULC>"X",)SoCalKid (talk) 20:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  YES!There should be a Tom Swift Book remebrance  

message: Happy Birthday Edward Startemeyere Father of Tom Swift Books etc. today oct.4th,2009 21stCent AM Morn Dr.Edson ASndre' Johnson D.D.ULC>Edsonbrasil (talk) 18:56, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Happy Birthday Father of Tom Swift etc 

message: According to Omnibus II (published by Veritas Press in 2005, ), page 148, Edward Stratemeyer was "arguably among the most prolific and influential American authors. Indeed, he wrote and sold more than almost any other writer who has ever lived anywhere at any time - some 1300 novels selling in excess of 500 million copies." Ork Rule (talk) 15:39, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prolific Author 

message: This article uses poor sources.  The Omnibus II (Veritas Press) is hardly an authoritative source on this topic.  The Dinan book makes many errors with regard to Stratemeyer so should not be used as a source.  If you look at Gilbert Patten's own autobiography you will see that Stratemeyer hired Patten!  Patten did not hire Stratemeyer.  Plus, this is hardly the highlight of his career.
What Stratemeyer did was not act as a "publisher" but more of what is now called a "book packager."  Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, which he established in 1905, he came up with series ideas, arranged with publishers to issue them, created outlines for stories, hired ghostwriters to complete the manuscripts.  When the manuscripts were done, he paid the ghostwriters promptly and fairly well in the money of the period.  He edited the stories as needed and submitted them to publishers such as Cupples & Leon, Grosset & Dunlap, and others.
Keeline (talk) 14:00, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career 

message: Ok, this all started because I found a book online (ManyBooks) originally published in 1901 with the author listed as a Captain Ralph Bonehill. The book in question is "Boys of the For" and subtitled "Or a Young Captain's Pluck." In the preface the author states ""BOYS OF THE FORT" is a complete story in itself, but forms the fifth volume of a line of works issued under the general title of "Flag of Freedom Series."" The thing was that I was trying to find when this book is supposed to be set and tried looking up the author's name without much luck biography wise. However, when I tried Project Guttenberg it redirected to Edward Stratemeyer. And under Stratemeyer it lists not only Ralph Bonehill but also a Arthur M. Winfield. And beside the link for the book they list him as the author. Now what I'm wondering is was this a pen for Stratemeyer? -annonymous 10/14/2011 6:08 AM EST  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.64.14.252 (talk) 10:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pen Names 

message: I have to agree with Keeline (right above). Considering the importance of Edward's body of work - this page is a joke - which is why I added the stub class tag - because it is a big stubby.Paradise coyote (talk) 00:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Articles like this one make me appalled to be a part of this community. One of the most important figures in the history of literature has a page shorter than that of this guy (yes, I found him through one click of the random article feature). Hopefully, Tom Swift being on the front page will help bring attention to this article. Bzweebl (talk) 02:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Poor page, considering...

message: there is no information during his childhood other than when and where he was born. We need more information, and I cant finish a project because of it.76.182.204.239 (talk) 03:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  education? 

message: In publisher article Grosset & Dunlap, we say that company is known for its juvenile series "from its long partnership with the Stratemeyer Syndicate", no dates. In series article Rover Boys, we say that was Edward Stratemeyer's first juvenile series, published from 1899 to 1926 and maintained in print by Grosset & Dunlap, with G&D editions from the 1910s/20s best known, no information whether he started with G&D. Here we say Edward S established the S Syndicate in 1906. We give pre-1906 publication dates for the first 9 Rover Boys novels and give 1904 inauguration date for the Bobbsey Twins, no list of titles or explicit mention of publisher, only general attribution of the series to S Syndicate.
Who was Edward's first book publisher? Who were his other publishers to 1906? In what sense was the Stratemeyer Syndicate from 1906 a publisher or work in partnership with publishers? This biography and the articles on both early series should be revised. 
--P64 (talk) 16:12, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publishers 

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