Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications To publish is to make content publicly known. The term is most frequently applied to the distribution of text or images on paper, or to the placing of content on a website, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles An article is a stand-alone section of a larger written work. These nonfictional prose compositions appear in magazines, newspapers, academic journals, the Internet or any other type of publication, generally financed by advertising Advertising is a form of communication used to influence individuals to purchase products or services or support political candidates or ideas. Frequently it communicates a message that includes the name of the product or service and how that product or service could potentially benefit the consumer. Advertising often attempts to persuade, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions The subscription business model is a business model where a customer must pay a subscription price to have access to the product/service. The model was pioneered by magazines and newspapers, but is now used by many businesses and websites. Rather than selling products individually, a subscription sells periodic use or access to a product or, or all three. Magazines can be distributed through the mail Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post; through sales by newsstands A newsagent , newsagency (Australian English) or newsstand (American English), is often a small business that sells newspapers, magazines, stationery, snacks and often items of local interest such as postcards and clothing emblazoned with sports team mascots. Newsstands typically operate in well-trafficked public places like city streets, train, bookstores Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers or bookmen or other vendors; or through free distribution at selected pick up locations.
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Publication
The various elements that contribute to the production of magazines vary wildly. Core elements such as publishing schedules, formats and target audiences are seemingly infinitely variable. Typically, magazines which focus primarily on current events, such as Newsweek Newsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 or Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture. Unlike celebrity-focused publications US Weekly, People, and In Touch Weekly, EW's primary concentration is on entertainment media and critical reviews. Unlike Variety and, are published weekly or biweekly. Magazines with a focus on specific interests, such as Cat Fancy Cat Fancy is the name of a popular North American monthly magazine dedicated to cats, owners of cats, and breeders of cats published by Bowtie Magazines, may be published less frequently, such as monthly, bimonthly or quarterly. A magazine will usually have a date on the cover Cover date refers to the date displayed on the covers of periodical publications such as magazines and comic books. However, this is not necessarily the true date of publication. Also, for some publications, the cover date may not actually be found on the cover, but rather on an inside jacket or on an interior page which often is later than the date it is actually published. Current magazines are generally available at bookstores and newsstands, while subscribers can receive them in the mail Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post. Many magazines also offer a back issue service for previously published editions.
Most magazines produced on a commercial scale are printed using a web offset process Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique where the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to. The magazine is printed in sections, typically of 16 pages, which may be black-and-white, be in full colour, or use spot color. These sections are then bound, either by stapling them within a soft cover Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block in a process sometimes referred to as saddle-stitching, or by gluing Adhesive or glue is a compound in a liquid or semi-liquid state that adheres or bonds items together. Adhesives may come from either natural or synthetic sources. Some modern adhesives are extremely strong, and are becoming increasingly important in modern construction and industry. The types of materials that can be bonded using adhesives are them together to form a spine, a process often called perfect-binding.
Some magazines are also published on the internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and. Many magazines are available both on the internet and in hard copy, usually in different versions, though some are only available in hard copy or only via the internet: the latter are known as online magazines An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform a quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers and the.
Most magazines are available in the whole of the country in which they are published, although some are distributed only in specific regions or cities. Others are available internationally, often in different editions for each country or area of the world, varying to some degree in editorial and advertising content but not entirely dissimilar.
Other publications
Although similar to a magazine in some respects, an academic periodical featuring scholarly Academia, Acadème, or the Academy are collective terms for the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research articles written in a more specialist register is usually called an "academic journal An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research,". Such publications typically carry little or no advertising. Articles are vetted by referees or a board of esteemed academics in the subject area.
History
The Gentleman's Magazine The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January, 1731. The original complete title was The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin, first published in 1731 Year 1731 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar), in London London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. A major settlement for two millennia, its history goes back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the nineteenth century, the name "London" has also, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave Edward Cave, , was an English printer, editor and publisher. In The Gentleman's Magazine he created the first general-interest "magazine" in the modern sense, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, originally derived from the Arabic makazin "storehouses".[1]
The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine The Scots Magazine is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It is the oldest magazine in the world still in publication although there have been several gaps in its publication history. It has reported on events from the defeat of the Jacobites through the Napoleonic wars to the Second World War and on to the creation of, which was first published in 1739 Year 1739 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar), though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim. Lloyd's List Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously-running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 59,200 . Known simply as 'The List', Lloyd's List was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London, as a reliable but terse was founded in Edward Lloyd’s England coffee shop in 1734 Year 1734 was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar); it is still published as a daily business newspaper.
Environmental impact
A life cycle study shows that the CO2 emissions Greenhouse gases are gases in an atmosphere that absorb and emit radiation within the thermal infrared range. This process is the fundamental cause of the greenhouse effect. The main greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. In our solar system, the atmospheres of Venus, Mars and caused by the production and distribution of one copy of an average sized 0.39 pound magazine in the USA The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the total about 0.95 kilograms (2.1 pounds) -- including paper from trees, materials, production, shipping and customer use.[2] The loss of natural habitat potential from the 0.39 pound magazine is estimated to be 0.73 square meters (7.9 square feet). [3]
See also
- Column (newspaper) A column is a recurring piece or article in a newspaper, magazine or other publication. Columns are written by columnists
- Editorial page The editorial page is the page reserved in a newspaper or magazine for the publication's editorial. Frequently letters to the editor, the masthead, and editorial cartoons are also printed here or continued on to the Op-ed page
- List of eighteenth-century British periodicals Categories: Lists of publications | 18th century in Great Britain | United Kingdom-related lists | Lists of journals | Defunct literary magazines of the United Kingdom
- List of fashion magazines
- List of nineteenth-century British periodicals The periodical press flourished in the nineteenth century: the Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals will eventually list over 100,000 titles. Nineteenth-century periodicals have been the focus of extensive indexing efforts, such as that of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900, Poole's Index to Periodical
- List of online magazine archives Categories: Lists of publications | Digital libraries | Lists of magazines
- Review A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, book, or a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer. In addition to a critical statement, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit. More loosely, an author may review current events or items in the
- Short story A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books. Short story definitions based upon length differ somewhat even among professional writers, due somewhat in part to the fragmentation of the medium
- Types of magazines
- Academic journals An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research. Content typically takes the form of articles presenting original research,
- Architecture magazines
- Art magazines
- Automobile magazines An automobile magazine is a magazine with news and reports on automobiles and the automobile industry. Automobile magazines may feature new car tests and comparisons, which describe advantages and disadvantages of similar models; future models speculations, confidential information and "spyshots" ; modified automobiles; lists of new
- Boating magazines A boating magazine is a publication whose main topic is boating, new boat reviews, boat motors and watersports. They can be aimed at different water sports enthusiasts including but not limited to: cruisers, fishers, skiers, sailors, racers, et cetera
- British boys' magazines
- Business magazines Business journalism is the branch of journalism that tracks, records, analyzes and interprets the economic changes that take place in a society. It could include anything from personal finance, to business at the local market and shopping malls, to the performance of well-known and not-so-well-known companies
- Comic books A comic book is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book artform) and often including brief descriptive prose. The first comic book appeared in the United States of America in 1934, reprinting the earlier newspaper comic strips, which established many of the story-
- Computer magazines This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately
- Customer magazines A customer magazine is a magazine produced by a business as a means of communicating to its customers. It is a branch of custom media, a product that broadly shares the look and feel of a newsstand or consumer magazine but is paid for in part or whole by a business. Rather than copy sales and advertising, the primary goal of a customer magazine is
- Fantasy fiction magazines A fantasy fiction magazine or fantasy magazine is a magazine which publishes primarily fantasy fiction. Not generally included in the category are magazines for children with stories about such characters as Santa Claus. Also not included are adult magazines about sexual fantasy. Many fantasy magazines, in addition to fiction, have other features
- Health and fitness magazines
- History magazines Categories: Magazines by interest | History publications
- Horror fiction magazines
- Humor magazines A humor magazine is a magazine specifically designed to deliver humorous content, often in the form of satire, to its readership
- Literary magazines A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, which is not meant as a
- Luxury magazines A luxury lifestyle magazine is a printed or online magazine marketed to the ultra-affluent that feature high-value products like sports cars, jewelry, mechanical watches, real estate, yachts, private jets and exotic vacations
- Men's magazines This is a list of magazines primarily marketed to men. The list has been split into subcategories according to the target audience of the magazines. This list includes both 'adult' magazines as well as more mainstream ones. Not included here are automobile magazines and gadget magazines, many of which are aimed at a primarily male audience
- Music magazines A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music
- News magazines
- Online magazines
- Partworks
- Pornographic magazines
- Pulp magazines
- Railroad magazines
- Regional magazines
- Satirical magazines
- Science fiction magazines
- Science magazines and scientific journals
- Serials, periodicals and journals
- Shelter magazines (home design and decorating)
- Sports magazines
- Student magazines
- Teen magazines
- Trade journals
- Trade magazines
- Travel magazine
- Wildlife magazines
- Women's magazines
References
| Look up magazine, periodical, or journal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- ^ OED, s.v. "Magazine".
- ^ "How big is Discover's carbon f?". discovermagazine.com. http://discovermagazine.com/2008/may/21-how-big-is-discover.s-carbon-footprint/article_view?b_start:int=1&-C=. Retrieved Mar 12, 2009.
- ^ "Environmental impact of a magazine". ecofx.org. http://ecofx.org/wiki/index.php?title=Magazine. Retrieved Mar 12, 2009.
External links
- Magazine World (University of Winchester Journalism Department) note: navigate from front page of site to teaching materials > journalism now > magazines
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