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{{Short description|Publication that is typically distributed at a regular interval}} {{About|publications}} {{Redirect|Quarterly|quarterly in heraldry|Quartering (heraldry)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{multiple issues| {{More footnotes|date=January 2025}} {{Page numbers needed|date=January 2025}} {{Update|part=lead, and throughout |reason=article fails to address, except obliquely and sporadically, the surpassing and well-documented impact of the industry's print-to-digital transition, which effects the whole of this article |inaccurate=yes|date=January 2025}} }} <!--HARPERS IS CLEARLY THE MORE READILY RECOGNIZABLE MAGAZINE IMAGE, OVER THE EARLIER APPEARING MAGAZINE OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.--> [[File:Harper's January.png|thumb|right|upright|''[[Harper's Monthly]]'', a literary and political force in the late 19th century.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}<!--Citation needed, otherwise editorialising.-->]] A '''magazine'''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dorsey |first=Ralph |title=Get This Magazine |url=https://getthismagazine.com/ |website=Getthismagazine.com}}</ref> is a [[periodical literature|periodical publication]], print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual [[content (media)|content]] forms. Magazines are generally financed by [[advertising]], [[newsagent's shop|purchase price]], prepaid [[subscription business model|subscriptions]], or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event.{{not verified in body|date = January 2025}}
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