Like installments in a serial novel, new revelations have been dripping out since March.
If corporations would only copy more of the best practices from the venture capital industry or from serial new-business creators like 3M, they could reduce the failure rate to an acceptable level.
Five months ago, the horror writer Stephen King struck a blow for author independence, electing to forgo the help of a publisher and sell a new serial novel directly to his readers in digital form over the Internet.
Last week, Mr. King announced a long hiatus for "The Plant," his closely watched experiment in self-publishing, by selling installments of a new serial novel directly to his readers as digital files downloaded from his Web site.
"We published as a serial novel, a new chapter every week, written on deadline, the way Charles Dickens used to do it," Wenner said, while noting that Rolling Stone still lost the fiction award that year to Seventeen magazine.
And Amazon has just unveiled their new Kindle Serials program, which sends new installments of a serial novel directly to your e-reading device.
Bullier, J. & Nowak, L. G. Parallel versus serial processing: new vistas on the distributed organization of the visual system.
Inkjet printing of nanomaterials could overcome the difficulties encountered in multi-step serial processes, new approaches use the direct growth at specific location with desired nanowire morphology.
I wrestle with my frustration because, in the end, if Serial introduces new readers and viewers and listeners to true crime, that's wonderful.
This adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel about a serial-killing New York banker is almost 20 years old and has aged rather well.
