About reload magazine

This article is about the magazine as a published medium.


Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three.

Magazines are materials usually come out every week, month, or bimonthly.A book usually takes six months to write and then another six months to get printed and published.  Add to this any time it takes for someone to find out about the information in the book and then purchase it for your library.Just because of the time factor, which resource do you think will be more up to date, books or magazines?  Share with your partner now.

There may be websites that are good resources for the information you need.  Do you know what some of the problems with a website might be?  Some websites have information that is wrong on them.  Some people will write bad information just because they think it is fun to do.  Others may write misinformation because they want you to think the way they do, so the will lie to you to think their way. Magazines cost moneyOne reason that you have to pay for a magazine is because the writers have editors that make sure they are printing the truth.  You don't have to pay to look at an Internet website and there isn't anyone looking at what is on the Internet to make sure it is true.

Magazine helps us in different ways:

• Marketing ideas – the way the magazine markets and pitches itself to readers can teach a lot – particularly what they do on the front cover which is all about convincing people to buy the magazine.
• Design ideas – some magazines do layout better than others and the web is definitely a different medium than print – but you can still learn a lot about design from reading a good magazine. Good magazines will give you an indication of what types of design/colors/layout are in vogue at the moment.
• Post Ideas – whether I choose a magazine on my blog’s topic or not – I almost always come away from this with a story for a new post. Sometimes the inspiration comes from a completely unrelated topic but an article that has a headline/title that could be applied to my niche.
• Learning about my Niche – if you choose a magazine on your topic it’ll keep you across the latest news and developments in it.
• Writing Tips – a good article on almost any topic can teach you a lot about effective communication.
• Monetization Lessons – mainstream media have been monetizing content for a long time – while the web is different some principles still apply.
• Reader Engagement – while a very different medium magazines are increasingly trying to get more interactive with readers by running competitions, setting up online areas, using reader contributions etc – I often find myself with sparks of inspiration from watching how magazines reach out to readers.