How Dickens books were bound?

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I heard in class that people who would buy the serialized Dickens novels would pay to have them bound in books, and that Dickens would get a cut for each time they rebound it. Does anyone have a reference on the internet to go along with this? I've been searching and can't find anything.

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Not likely. Yes, they were serialized but how would Dickens know who to collect from. He probably got paid the same way authors get paid today, a flat rate plus (maybe) so much for each copy sold.