Magazines are widely read publications that are published on a regular schedule and can influence many people. They cover a variety of topics in different styles for readers of varying abilities and interests. There are many types of magazines, including news magazines, lifestyle magazines, hobby/interest magazines, trade publications, and company magazines. Factors like availability, habit, gender, age, education, and occupation can determine what magazines and articles individual readers choose.
Magazines are widely read publications that are published on a regular schedule and can influence many people. They cover a variety of topics in different styles for readers of varying abilities and interests. There are many types of magazines, including news magazines, lifestyle magazines, hobby/interest magazines, trade publications, and company magazines. Factors like availability, habit, gender, age, education, and occupation can determine what magazines and articles individual readers choose.
Magazines are widely read publications that are published on a regular schedule and can influence many people. They cover a variety of topics in different styles for readers of varying abilities and interests. There are many types of magazines, including news magazines, lifestyle magazines, hobby/interest magazines, trade publications, and company magazines. Factors like availability, habit, gender, age, education, and occupation can determine what magazines and articles individual readers choose.
Magazines are widely read publications that are published on a regular schedule and can influence many people. They cover a variety of topics in different styles for readers of varying abilities and interests. There are many types of magazines, including news magazines, lifestyle magazines, hobby/interest magazines, trade publications, and company magazines. Factors like availability, habit, gender, age, education, and occupation can determine what magazines and articles individual readers choose.
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Like newspapers, magazines are read widely and they also have a significant
influence on the thoughts and actions of millions of people. A magazine, or
periodical, is any publication which is published at regular intervals, or periods, of more than one day—once a week, once a month, or at some other specified period. Magazines differ greatly in subject matter, style of writing, make-up, and reader appeal. They also differ widely in reading difficulty, ranging from those that require a very limited reading ability to the learned journals of the professions and to quality magazines such as Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly, or the Saturday Review. The content and style of writing of such periodicals appeal to those with higher-than-average reading ability and a wide range of intellectual interests. The reader can choose from a great variety of magazines. There are news magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, which are devoted chiefly to giving an overview of the week’s news and interpretations of current happenings. Such magazines explain relationships between events in greater detail than is found in the daily papers. Magazines such as Life and Look depict the news of the week primarily in pictures. General publications such as the Saturday Evening Post contain stories, articles, verse, and other features that appeal to those with many and varied interests. Periodicals such as Good Housekeeping, The Ladies; Home Journal, McCall’s, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and many others cater to women’s particular interests. There are various digest magazines that present in condensed form selections taken from current publications. There are also many magazines that specialize in particular subjects. Are you interested especially in sports, travel, science, antiques, interior designing, or the theater? Whatever your interest, there are magazines for you. Sports Illustrated, Holiday, and Popular Science Monthly are only a few examples of such specialized magazines. Magazines called trade journals give information about specific occupations. Some of the larger companies publish their own magazines to keep employees and other interested persons informed about the company and its activities and progress. Such publications are called house organs. As you can see from the large variety of magazines that are published, people differ widely in the periodicals they choose to read. What are some of the factors that determine why readers choose the magazines and articles they do? It has been found that readers often do what is easiest for them, as well as what they have become accustomed to doing. For example, they tend to buy magazines that are easily available to them at the corner drug store or nearby newsstand. They tend to buy the same magazines repeatedly. Also, it has been found, men’s selections of reading material in magazines are often quite different from women’s. age, reading ability, education, and occupation are other factors that may have an effect on reading selections.