[inglor_cz]

This was incredibly common back in the early 1900s. Whole books were at first published in one-page installations in newspapers. Including the most famous Czech novel, Good soldier Švejk.

Prior to the advent of radio and TV, this was the best way how to hit a huge audience at once. And for the newspaper, it was a way to entice people to buy the next issue.

[Joker_vD]

That was also common in the XIX century as well: that's how Alexander Dumas and Charles Dickens were published.

[webmaven]

> That was also common in the XIX century as well: that's how Alexander Dumas and Charles Dickens were published.

It wasn't exactly uncommon in the early XX either, during the "Golden Age" of SFF:

https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2015/01/22/the-history-of-...

[cmsefton]

Right, so it's basically serialisation. Interesting, I always saw serialisation as releasing an already finished novel bit by bit, but just reading about the history of serialisation, it seems that was not always the case. Thanks for giving me the pointer.