Yeah and my memory fails me at the moment but there are a number of literary classics that were originally published as newspaper/magazine periodicals. I believe a lot of Dostoyevsky was but I'm sure there were others including English classics.

This doesn't really help someone who's only interested in the novels. My recommendation would be to jump on some YouTube channels that give introductory and background info on the setting.

I think many people forget (or never knew) that a lot of what we consider "classics" was pulp or serials at the time. Not saying that warhammer novels are the futures classics (who knows though) but yeah, nothing wrong with pulp and good old entertainment.