Periodical Format

Magazines, periodicals or serials are publication, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, or both. The various elements that contribute to the production of magazines vary...

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Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically 22 inches or more). The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of...

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscriber. Newspaper and leaflet are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (e-Newsletters) have gained rapid...

Berliner, or "midi", is a newspaper format with pages normally measuring about 470 mm × 315 mm (18½ in × 12.4 in). The berliner format is slightly taller and marginally wider than the tabloid/compact format; and is both narrower and shorter than the broadsheet format. ...

A compact newspaper is a broadsheet-quality newspaper printed in a tabloid format, especially in the United Kingdom. The term came into use in its current form when The Independent began producing a smaller format edition for London's commuter, designed to be easier to...

Free daily newspapers trace their history back to the 1940s when Walnut Creek, California publisher Dean Lesher began what is widely believed to be the first free daily, now known as the Contra Costa Times. In the 1960s, he converted that newspaper and three others in...

The bedsheet format was the size of many magazine published in the United States in the first third of the 20th Century. Magazines in bedsheet format were roughly the size of Life Magazine but with square spines. One noteworthy bedsheet magazine was Amazing Stories,...