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Types of Magazines

 Magazines are of different types. Five major categories are: .

  1. General Interest Magazines:

Magazines covering wide variety of topics aimed at a broad audience. They occasionally offer investigative stories and burning social issues.

  1. Business Magazines:

Also called trade magazines. They focus on topics related to a particular occupation, profession, or industry.

  1. Consumer Magazines:

Consumer magazines also aim at general public in their private and non-business lives. They are called consumer magazines as their readers prompted to consume products and services advertised in them. In modern age, most of the women’s’ magazines are ended up as consumer magazines. Health ,tourism and IT magazines are not exceptions.

  1. Literary Reviews:

Those magazines which publish literary-oriented content including fiction and non-fiction like literary and cultural studies. Books reviews, Digests etc.

  1. Academic Reviews:

These are publications of serious nature focusing on academic research articles and available mainly through subscription or mail order. Eg. Economic and Political Weekly, Communication Research, Journal of Communication etc.

  1. News Magazines:

News magazines stress the news based content and analysis. Time, News Week, tribunes etc.

  1. Comic Books:

Periodicals that tell stories through pictures as well as words and meant for purely entertainment and contain comic pictures and picture stories, puzzles and the like. Their focused audience is children. Examples:  Batman, Fantom, Green Lantern.

 

Contents and general types of magazines 

  • Art magazines
  • Business magazines
  • Music magazines 
  • Computer magazines
  • Children's magazines 
  • Health and fitness magazines 
  • History magazines
  • Humor magazines
  • Inspirational magazines
  • Men's magazines 
  • Women's magazines 

Luxury magazines

Books 
Though books existed before print technology, they were limited in number and their readership was also confined to few.  
A book is a collection of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge, usually within covers. Each side of a sheet is called a page and a single sheet within a book may be called a leaf. A book is also a literary work or a main division of such a work  
Books became part of the mass media after the printing process was invented. Now they are in the reach of almost everyone and could cover any distance on the planet. Their topics are varied and their value could be judged from the fact that most libraries in the world are due to books rather than other published material.  
When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, nearly everything that could be written upon— stone, clay, tree bark, metal sheets—was used for writing. Alphabetic writing emerged in Egypt around 1800 BC.   
Scroll Egyptian papyrus showing the god Osiris and the weighing of the heart Ö  
In Ancient Egypt, papyrus (a form of paper made by weaving the stems of the papyrus plant, then pounding the woven sheet with a hammer like tool) was used for writing maybe as early as from First Dynasty, but first evidence is from the account books of King Neferirkare Kakai of the Fifth Dynasty (about 2400 BC).   
Middle Ages Manuscripts Before the invention and adoption of the printing press, almost all books were copied by hand, which made books expensive and comparatively rare. Smaller monasteries had usually only some dozen books, medium sized a couple hundred. By the ninth century larger collections held around 500 volumes.   
Wood block printing  A 15th century incunabulum Ö Notice the blind-tooled cover, cornerbosses and clasps for holding the book shut.  
Innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. This invention made books comparatively affordable (although still quite expensive for most people) and more widely available. It is estimated that in Europe about 1,000 various books were created per year before the development of the printing press.   
Paper 
Though papermaking in Europe had begun around the 11th century, up until the beginning of 16th century vellum and paper were produced congruent to one another, vellum being the more expensive and durable option. Printers or publishers would often issue the same publication on both materials, to cater to more than one market. As was the case with many medieval inventions, paper was first made in China, as early as 200 B.C., and reached Europe through Muslim territories. At first made of rags, the industrial revolution changed paper-making practices, allowing for paper to be made out of wood pulp. Modern world A collection of Penguin Books Ö With the rise of printing in the fifteenth century, books were published in limited numbers and were quite valuable. The need to protect