Magazine Information
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three. Magazines can be distributed through the mail; through sales by newsstands, bookstores or other vendors; or through free distribution at selected pick up locations. Magazines are distributed into three categories: paid circulation, free circulation and controlled circulation. Paid circulation is when a magazine is published to a paid audience. Free circulation is when a magazine is distributed for free. Controlled circulation is an insider magazine or industry-based magazine where it is distributed to only those who qualify. In the library technical sense a "magazine" paginates with each issue starting at Page 1.[1] Academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed are generally professional magazines.[2]
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History
Main article: History of newspapers and magazinesThe Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1771, in London, is considered to have been the first general-interest magazine. Edward Cave, 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 makhazin "storehouses".[3]
The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim. Lloyd's List was founded in Edward Lloyd’s England coffee shop in 1734; it is still published as a daily business newspaper.
See also
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- Art magazines
- Automobile magazines
- Boating magazines
- British boys' magazines
- Business magazines
- Computer magazines
- Customer magazines
- Fantasy fiction magazines
- Health and fitness magazines
- History magazines
- Horror fiction magazines
- Humor magazines
- Literary magazines
- Luxury magazines
- Music magazines
- News magazines
- Online magazines
- Pornographic magazines
- Pulp magazines
- Science fiction magazines
- Science magazines and scientific journals
- Shelter magazines (home design and decorating)
- Sports magazines
- Teen magazines
- Trade journals
- Trade magazines
- Lists
- List of eighteenth-century British periodicals
- List of fashion magazines
- List of men's magazines
- List of nineteenth-century British periodicals
- List of online magazine archives
- List of political magazines
- List of railroad-related periodicals
- List of women's magazines
- List of travel magazines
- List of architecture magazines
- Categories
- category:Periodicals
- category:Religious magazines
- category:Satirical magazines
- category:Wildlife magazines
References
- ^ Likewise, in the technical sense a "journal" has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus Business Week, which starts each issue anew with p. 1, is a magazine, but the Journal of Business Communication , which starts each volume with the winter issue and continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer reviewed, an example being the Journal of Accountancy. See Magazine (firearms) for another sense in which the word "magazine" refers to serialized unitary behavior. Cf. the French Wikipedia's disambiguation of various meanings of the cognate magasin.
- ^ The fact that a publication calls itself a "journal" does not make it a journal in the technical sense. The Journal of Accountancy, for example, is in fact a magazine (each issue starts with p. 1). The Wall Street Journal is actually a newspaper.
- ^ OED, s.v. "Magazine".
External links
| Look up magazine, periodical, or journal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- Magazine at the Open Directory Project
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