Magazines

                The magazine lecture was the one I found the most interesting. It kept me engaged the entire class and soaked up the information like a sponge. I thought serialized fiction was the most important innovation of the magazine. Serialized fiction is publishing a chapter at a time in a magazine instead of the whole book. Back in the early years of book writing people were paid by the word. That meant books were long,boring, and no one read them. Serialized fiction brought the aliterate to the world of the literate. Aliterate by the way means people who can read, but they choose not to.
               In 1879 the Postal Act was passed; which led to subsidized magazines. Subsidized means finacial support, and in this case financial support from the government. The government realized that magazines were good for the country and made 1 cents per pound to mail magazines. Subsidized magazines finally gave America a national identity, and literacy rates started to rise.