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.
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 or Entertainment Weekly , are published weekly or biweekly. Magazines with a focus on specific interests, such as Cat Fancy , may be published less frequently, such as monthly, bimonthly or quarterly. A magazine will usually have a date on the cover 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. 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. The magazine is printed in sections, typically of 16 pages, which may be black-and-white, be in full colour, or use spot colour. These sections are then bound, either by stapling them within a soft cover in a process sometimes referred to as saddle-stitching , or by gluing them together to form a spine, a process often called perfect-binding .
Some magazines are also published on the internet. 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.
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 articles written in a more specialist register is usually called an "academic journal". 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 , first published in 1731, 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 makazin "storehouses".
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.
Environmental impact
A life cycle study shows that the CO 2 emissions caused by the production and distribution of one copy of an average sized 0.39 pound magazine in the USA total about 0.95 kilograms (2.1 pounds) -- including paper from trees, materials, production, shipping and customer use. The loss of natural habitat potential from the 0.39 pound magazine is estimated to be 0.73 square meters (7.9 square feet).
See also
- Column (newspaper)
- Editorial page
- List of eighteenth-century British periodicals
- List of fashion magazines
- List of nineteenth-century British periodicals
- List of online magazine archives
- Review
- Short story
- Academic journals
- Architecture magazines
- Art magazines
- Automobile magazines
- Boating magazines
- British boys' magazines
- Business magazines
- Comic books
- Computer magazines
- Customer magazines
- Fantasy fiction magazines
- Health and fitness magazines
- History magazines
- Horror fiction magazines
- Humor magazines
- Literary magazines
- Luxury magazines
- Men's magazines
- Music magazines
- 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
- ^ 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 >
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