The popular trend in recent years to revive older shows ( Mission Impossible, I Spy, Starsky and Hutch, Miami Vice) as new movies has lead to increased interest in Tie-In novels based on those original series. Increased publishing costs (and therefore higher costs for purchasing the books) led to decreased numbers of Tie-In novels during the 1990s and beyond, with a few major exceptions (the Star Trek series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, etc.). In the 1970s and 1980s, Tie-Ins were published with some regularity. Published cheaply (they were considered a disposable item), and most often in paperback form, TV Tie-Ins first appeared in the 1950s and then enjoyed a boom period associated with the television series of the 1960s. From the earliest days of televised dramas and situation comedies, publishers have realized that they had a built in audience for original novels based on popular television series. The history of the TV Tie-In novel is long and illustrious.
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