Online magazine: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Website-based magazine (different from E-zine, which is sent to the subscribers)}}

An '''online magazine''' is a [[magazine]] published on the [[Internet]], through [[bulletin board system]]s and other forms of public computer networks.

One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to an online only magazine was the [[computer magazine]] ''[[Datamation]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Datamation |publisher= |url=https://www.datamation.com/ |access-date=24 March 2015 |archive-date=16 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616061855/https://www.datamation.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Some online magazines distributed through the [[World Wide Web]] call themselves '''webzines'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Webzine Definition & Meaning |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/webzine |access-date=2012-03-02 |publisher=Dictionary.com |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214823/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/webzine |url-status=live }}</ref> An '''ezine''' (also spelled '''e-[[zine]]''') is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and [[Newsletter|newsletters]] distributed by any electronic method, for example, by email.<ref>{{Cite CD.com|webzine|access-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>

Some [[Social group|social groups]] may use the terms '''cyberzine''' and '''hyperzine''' when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches.

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|style="text-align: left;"|—''Mega 'Zines'', [[Macworld]] (1995)<ref>{{cite journal|last=Pogue|first=David|author-link=David Pogue|date=May 1995|title=Mega 'Zines: Electronic Mac Mags make modems meaningful|journal=Macworld {{subscription required}}|pages=143–144|access-date=2011-02-23|quote=It's amazing how inexpensive a publication can be if it doesn't need to pay for writing, editing, design, paper, ink, or postage.|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16739580.html}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|fix-attempted=yes}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Due to their low cost and initial non-mainstream targets, The original online magazines, e-zines and [[disk magazine]]s, (or diskmags, due to their low cost and initial non-mainstream targets), may be seen as a [[disruptive technology]] to traditional publishing houses. The high cost of print publication and large Web readership has encouraged these publishers to embrace the [[World Wide Web]] as a marketing and content delivery system and another medium for delivering their advertisers' messages.

In the late 1990s, e-zine publishers began adapting to the interactive and informative qualities of the Internetinternet instead of simply duplicating print magazines on the web. Publishers of traditional print titlesmagazines and entrepreneurs with an eye to a potential readership in the millions started publishing online titlesmagazines. ''[[Salon.com]]'', founded in July 1995 by David Talbot, was launched with considerable media exposure and today reports 5.8 million monthly unique visitors. In the 2000s, some webzines began appearing in a printed format to complement their online versions.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carr |first=David |date=2005-02-10 |title=The Founder of Salon Is Passing the Mouse |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/books/the-founder-of-salon-is-passing-the-mouse.html |url-access=limited |access-date=2021-02-21 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2021-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126121221/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/books/the-founder-of-salon-is-passing-the-mouse.html |url-status=live }}</ref>