An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet , through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks.
20-651: BrooklynVegan is an American online music magazine founded in 2004 by David Levine. The company is headquartered in Brooklyn , New York, and originally focused on vegan food and the music community in and around New York City, before broadening its scope to covering musical artists and events worldwide. Since 2011, BrooklynVegan operates two subsidiaries dedicated to other cites: BV Chicago , which serves Chicago , Illinois; and BV Austin , which serves Austin , Texas. In 2013, BrooklynVegan acquired German-American webzine Invisible Oranges , moving its headquarters to
40-517: 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 internet instead of simply duplicating print magazines on
60-405: A print magazine format to an online only magazine was the computer magazine Datamation . Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines . An ezine (also spelled e- zine ) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by email. Some social groups may use
80-778: A quality control function to ensure that all material meets the expectations of the publishers (those investing time or money in its production) and the readership. Many large print publishers now provide digital reproduction of their print magazine titles through various online services for a fee. These service providers also refer to their collections of these digital format products as online magazines, and sometimes as digital magazines. Online magazines representing matters of interest to specialists or societies for academic subjects, science, trade, or industry are typically referred to as online journals . Many general interest online magazines provide free access to all aspects of their online content, although some publishers have opted to require
100-529: A subscription fee to access premium online article and/or multimedia content. Online magazines may generate revenue based on targeted search ads to website visitors, banner ads ( online display advertising ), affiliations to retail web sites, classified advertisements, product-purchase capabilities, advertiser directory links, or alternative informational/commercial purpose. Due to their low cost and initial non-mainstream targets, The original online magazines, e-zines and disk magazines (or diskmags), may be seen as
120-471: The Internet . Most computer magazines offer (or offered) advice, some offer programming tutorials , reviews of the latest technologies, and advertisements. Sources:. 1980s computer magazines skewed their content towards the hobbyist end of the then- microcomputer market, and used to contain type-in programs , but these have gone out of fashion. The first magazine devoted to this class of computers
140-539: The "150 or so" industry magazines published articles without clearly identifying authors' affiliations and conflicts of interest . Around 1985, many magazines ended. However, as their number exceeded the amount of available advertising revenue despite revenue in the first half of the year five times that of the same period in 1982. Consumers typically bought computer magazines more for advertising than articles, which benefited already leading journals like BYTE and PC Magazine and hurt weaker ones. Also affecting magazines
160-1115: The December 1983 issue that "all of our previous records are being broken: largest number of pages, largest-number of four-color advertising pages, largest number of printing pages, and the largest number of editorial pages". Computers were the only industry with product-specific magazines, like 80 Micro , PC Magazine , and Macworld ; their editors vowed to impartially cover their computers whether or not doing so hurt their readers' and advertisers' market, while claiming that their rivals pandered to advertisers by only publishing positive news. BYTE, in March 1984, apologized for publishing articles by authors with promotional material for companies without describing them as such, and in April suggested that other magazines adopt its rules of conduct for writers, such as prohibiting employees from accepting gifts or discounts. InfoWorld stated in June that many of
180-538: The United States. In 2015, BrooklynVegan and its subsidiaries became affiliates of Townsquare Media . In 2021, BrooklynVegan and its subsidiaries were bought out by Project M Group. BrooklynVegan began in July 2004 as a blog that also covered vegan food options in Brooklyn , New York before founder and editor-in-chief, Dave Levine, shifted its focus to more exclusively documenting the live music community of
200-667: The greater New York City area. The domain was purchased by Levine in early 2004, and the first blog article was posted on August 24, 2004. The blog helps give exposure to new and upcoming artists, such as with its installment in the Artist Discovery Series of blog posts hosted by Austin City Limits and Lollapalooza , and their program on Sirius-XM . The blog also showcases artists at South by Southwest and at CMJ 's annual music festival in New York, when in
220-507: The heyday of printed computer magazines was a period during the 1990s, in which a large number of computer manufacturers took out advertisements in computer magazines, so they became quite thick and could afford to carry quite a number of articles in each issue. Computer Shopper was a good example of this trend. Some printed computer magazines used to include covermount floppy disks , CDs , or other media as inserts; they typically contained software , demos , and electronic versions of
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#1732793461959240-581: The industry". Computer Gaming World stated in 1988 that it was the only one of the 18 color magazines that covered computer games in 1983 to survive the crash. Compute! similarly stated that year that it was the only general-interest survivor of about 150 consumer-computing magazines published in 1983. Some computer magazines in the 1980s and 1990s were issued only on disk (or cassette tape, or CD-ROM) with no printed counterpart; such publications are collectively (though somewhat inaccurately) known as disk magazines and are listed separately . In some ways
260-431: The new partnership, BrooklynVegan and Invisible Oranges launched a new webstore selling vinyl records, band shirts and apparel, as well as toys and collectibles. The stores are identical across BrooklynVegan , Invisible Oranges , Revolver , The Hard Times , Metal Edge , Inked and Goldmine , with content controlled and curated by Project M Group. Online magazine One of the first magazines to convert from
280-589: The summer of 2007, they invited the then- self-released Justin Vernon of Bon Iver to play the Bowery Ballroom . At the end of 2008, Stereogum considered it the best music blog of the year. In 2009, BrooklynVegan commissioned American journalist and editor of The Obelisk webzine JJ Koczan to cover Roadburn Festival on their behalf with a series of exclusive articles. In 2011, BrooklynVegan expanded its locale with two new imprint blogs. BV Chicago
300-572: 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. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers , but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control. Magazines typically have editors or editorial boards who review submissions and perform
320-435: The time, Townsquare Music also owned Consequence of Sound , Hype Machine , Ultimate Classic Rock , Loudwire , Gorilla vs. Bear and Noisecreep . In January 2021, BrooklynVegan and its three subsidiaries were bought out by American digital media brand and e-commerce company Project M Group (which had previously bought out Revolver , The Hard Times , Metal Edge , Inked and Goldmine ). As part of
340-535: The web. Publishers of traditional print magazines and entrepreneurs with an eye to a potential readership in the millions started publishing online magazines. 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. Computer magazine Computer magazines are about computers and related subjects, such as networking and
360-427: Was Creative Computing . Byte was an influential technical journal that published until the 1990s. In 1983, an average of one new computer magazine appeared each week. By late that year more than 200 existed. Their numbers and size grew rapidly with the industry they covered, and BYTE and 80 Micro were among the three thickest magazines of any kind per issue. Compute! ' s editor in chief reported in
380-552: Was launched in early 2011 and is devoted to Chicago , Illinois , while BV Austin was launched in late 2011 and is devoted to Austin, Texas . On January 4, 2013, BrooklynVegan officially acquired Invisible Oranges , a German-American heavy metal blog, and writer Fred Pessaro, BrooklynVegan' s heavy metal journalist, became editor-in-chief of Invisible Oranges . In July 2015, BrooklynVegan and its three subsidiaries became affiliates of American mass media conglomerate Townsquare Media , under its division Townsquare Music. At
400-674: Was the computer industry's economic difficulties, including the video game crash of 1983 , which badly hurt the home-computer market. Dan Gutman , the founder of Computer Games , recalled in 1987 that "the computer games industry crashed and burned like a bad night of Flight Simulator —with my magazine on the runway". Antic 's advertising sales declined by 50% in 90 days, Compute! 's number of pages declined from 392 in December 1983 to 160 ten months later, and Compute! and Compute!'s Gazette 's publisher assured readers in an editorial that his company "is and continues to be quite successful ... even during these particularly difficult times in
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