Periodical publication

Periodical publication

A periodical publication, or just periodical, is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar examples are the newspaper, often published daily, or weekly; or the magazine, typically published weekly, monthly or as a quarterly. Other examples would be a newsletter, a literary journal or learned journal, or a yearbook.

These examples all are related to the idea of an indefinitely continuing cycle of production and publication: newspapers plan to continue publishing, not to stop after a predetermined number of editions. A novel, in contrast, might be published in monthly parts, a method revived after the success of "The Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens. [ [http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/pu_novel.html Images of the Victorian book: Part publishing ] ] This approach is called part-publication, particularly when each part is from a whole work, or a serial, for example in comic books or "manga". It flourished in the middle of the nineteenth century, for example with Abraham John Valpy's "Delphin Classics", and was not restricted to fiction. [ Simon Eliot, Jonathan Rose, "A Companion to the History of the Book" (2007), p. 297.]

The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is to periodical publications what the ISBN is to books: a standardized reference number.

ee also

*Feuilleton

Notes


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • periodical publication — Printed matter (a magazine, newspaper, or other publication) that is issued on a regular, stated basis …   Glossary of postal terms

  • Periodical publication — Периодическое издание …   Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • periodical — [pir΄ē äd′i kəl] adj. 1. PERIODIC 2. published at regular intervals, as weekly, monthly, etc. 3. of a periodical n. a periodical publication …   English World dictionary

  • periodical — I. adjective Date: 1601 1. periodic 1 2. a. published with a fixed interval between the issues or numbers b. published in, characteristic of, or connected with a periodical II. noun Date: 1798 a periodical publication …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Periodical Literature, Poland —     Periodical Literature Poland     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (Poland)     There was a period of slow development from 1831 to 1864, and a period of progress from 1864 to the present day. During the first period there were… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Periodical Literature in the United States —     Periodical Literature The United States     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (The United States)     According to The Official Catholic Directory for 1911, there are 321 Catholic periodicals published in the United States. Of… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Periodical Literature, Italy —     Periodical Literature Italy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (Italy)     Without going back to the Acta Diurna, Acta Senatus, or Acta publica, existing in Rome in Cæsar s time, the modern newspaper had its birth in Venice.… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Periodical Literature, Spain —     Periodical Literature Spain     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (Spain)     The periodical Press in Spain began to exist early in the history of that country. The Enciclopedia Hispano Americana , in the article periodismo ,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Periodical Literature, France —     Periodical Literature France     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature (France)     The first periodical published in France was the Gazette de France , founded in May, 1631, by the physician Théophraste Renaudot. It first appeared… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Periodical Literature, Mexico —     Periodical Literature Mexico     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Periodical Literature Mexico     Colonial Period     During the administration of the viceroy Baltasar de Zuñiga Guzmán de Sotomayor, Marqués de Valero, the first newspaper,… …   Catholic encyclopedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”