Talk:Chapbook

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Someone more familiar than me with the current usage of chapbooks (like those published by various conventions and whatnot) needs to add information on this current usage. --nihon 07:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Chap Book[edit]

Shouldn't there be some reference to The Chap Book, the US magazine published between 1894 and 1898?

Another point of interest would be to clarify when the phrase chap book was actually coined. --Azurfrog (talk) 19:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If the magazine is notable, it needs a page of its own. The usage could be chased up in the "Oxford English Dictionary". Charles Matthews (talk) 20:14, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Introduction[edit]

This introductory paragraph needs to be rewritten—at present, it does not contain a short, straightforward description of what a chapbook is. Instead, it identifies it as "an early type of popular literature printed in Early Modern Europe", and then gives a brief (and well-written) discussion of the history and subject matter of chapbooks. This is all well and good, but what's missing is an answer to the question, "What is a chapbook?" That's the question that brought me to this article, and it remains unanswered.

Yes, it's an early type of popular literature, but surely there were many types of popular literature. Only one type was called a chapbook; which type was it?

Put another way, if I were looking at a shelf full of 17th-century European printed books in an antique book shop, how would I determine which ones were chapbooks? The first paragraph, and ideally the first sentence, needs to answer that question. Chalkieperfect (talk) 01:46, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have the same complaint -- I will try to take a stab at it now...-71.174.183.177 (talk) 19:42, 5 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Novel article: Chapbook section[edit]

The section on the 'Chapbook' in the novel article is too long. [1] Can material from it be used here? Rwood128 (talk) 12:11, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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