![]() ![]() This means that there is no cover price and issues are given away, for example in street dispensers, airline, or included with other products or publications. Paid circulation allows for defined readership statistics. In this model, the magazine is sold to readers for a price, either on a per-issue basis or by subscription, where an annual fee or monthly price is paid and issues are sent by post to readers. The traditional subscription business models for distribution fall into three main categories: Electronic distribution methods can include social media, email, news aggregators, and visibility of a publication's website and search engine results. Print magazines can be distributed through the mail, through sales by newsstands, bookstores, or other vendors, or through free distribution at selected pick-up locations. This explains why magazine publications share the word with gunpowder magazines, artillery magazines, firearm magazines, and in French and Russian (adopted from French as магазин), retailers such as department stores. In the case of written publication, it refers to a collection of written articles. In its original sense, the word "magazine" referred to a storage space or device. The word "magazine" derives from Arabic makhazin, the plural of makhzan meaning "depot, storehouse" (originally military storehouse) that comes to English via Middle French magasin and Italian magazzino. 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. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally professional magazines. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the Journal of Accountancy. Thus, Bloomberg Businessweek, which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the Journal of Business Communication, which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. In the technical sense a journal has continuous pagination throughout a volume. ![]() They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Full scan of the January 2009 issue of State Magazine, published by the United States Department of StateĪ magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. ![]()
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