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    Deferred gratification is dead? Tell that to fans of serialised novels | Stephanie Merritt

    Podcasts such as Serial have gripped millions of listeners. Now readers are rediscovering the delicious agony of waiting
    by Stephanie Merritt Mar 13, 2018 3 minutes
    ‘The ubiquity of digital platforms has made it harder to prevent the leakage of new books and taken away the need to stand outside a bookshop in the rain for hours.’ Photograph: Mito Images/Rex/Shutterstock

    It’s often lamented that the art of deferred gratification has vanished from our instantly downloadable culture, but the increasing popularity of serialised novels suggests this may not be the whole story.

    This won’t come as news to anyone who spent the autumn of 2014 gripped by the unfolding drama of the , which took the No 1 spot on iTunes before it was even released, and 18 months later had racked up 80m downloads. Though non-fiction, Serial was cited as a gamechanger

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