Chapter 8: Page Layout Procedures
Online Discussion: Identical Criteria of Magazine
Can you list the identical criteria for us to call that as a magazine?
Criteria for Magazine
1. Magazines are linear, meant to be read from front to back, but not necessarily in their entirety. Hyperlinking is not linear. Any medium which makes it possible for the reader to skip around among hundreds or thousands of articles is not linear.
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2. Magazines are periodic, whether weekly, monthly, or quarterly. They have an established frequency and do not come out more or less often.
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3. Magazines are cohesive, edited, curated, and culled to produce the most interesting and relevant content for the reader. The editorial content is connected and the whole is greater than a sum of its parts
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4. Magazines are portable and can be taken to a beach, the toilet, or anywhere else. As tablet computers become more versatile they may serve the function of the paper versions, perhaps even kick starting a resurgence of magazine reading