[Modules] DynaBook versus DynaProject

Andrew P. Black black at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Oct 30 10:49:09 UTC 2001


>Lord of the Rings is also a series of books, if I recall correctly 
>(I don't know whether J.R.R.T. intended this, or if it was a 
>publishing "artifact").

It was written and intended to be read as a single story.  The 
publishers thought that it would never sell, so they insisted that it 
be "modularized" into three "books", with separate titles.

Later, of course, it was published as a single volume, as Tolkien 
intended all along.

	Andrew




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