Magazines are publications, usually periodical publications,
that are printed or electronically published (the online versions are called
online magazines.) They are generally published on a regular schedule and
contain a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, by a
purchase price, by prepaid subscriptions, or a combination of the three. At its
root, the word "magazine" refers to a collection or storage location.
In the case of written publication, it is a collection of written articles.
This explains why magazine publications share the word root with gunpowder
magazines, artillery magazines, firearms magazines, and, in various languages
although not English, retail stores such as department stores.
By definition, a "magazine" paginates with each
issue starting at page three, with the standard sizing being 8 3/8" x 10
7/8". However, in the technical sense a "journal" has continuous
pagination throughout a volume. Thus Business Week, which starts each issue
anew with page one, 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. Academic or professional publications that are not peer-reviewed
are generally professional magazines. The fact that a publication calls itself
a "journal" does not make it a journal in the technical sense. The
Wall Street Journal is actually a newspaper.
The earliest example of magazines was Erbauliche Monaths
Unterredungen, a literary and philosophy magazine, which was launched in 1663
in Germany. The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London was
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.
In the mid 1800s monthly magazines gained popularity. They
were general interest to begin, containing some news, vignettes, poems,
history, political events, and social discussion. Unlike newspapers, they were
more of a monthly record of current events along with entertaining stories,
poems, and pictures. The first periodicals to branch out from news were
Harper's and The Atlantic, which focused on fostering the arts. Both Harper's
and the The Atlantic persist to this day, with Harper's being a cultural
magazine and The Atlantic focusing mainly on world events. Early publications
of Harper's even held famous works such as early publications of Moby Dick or
famous events such as the laying of the world's first trans-Atlantic cable
however the majority of early content was trickle down from British events. 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
totalling 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. Despite being among the first mass media outlets to venture from the
bible, periodicals still remained rooted in the naturalized class and gender system
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