mook

Japanese: mook
mook

...After the war, the reading magazine Bungei Shunju (1923) focused on documentaries, publishing feature-length documentaries on the dark side of the occupation, the dark side of conservative politics, and the internal affairs of the Japanese Communist Party, creating a postwar national magazine. Starting in the 1970s, a group of book-like magazines called mooks (a compound word of magazine and book) appeared, following the success of Heibonsha's Bessatsu Taiyo (1972), and they rapidly expanded.
[The current situation surrounding magazines]
Mass-circulation magazines contain a huge number of advertisements.

From [Publication]

...As a result, many new magazines are created every year, while at the same time many magazines are discontinued, making the practice of scrap-and-build commonplace. In addition, many magazines called mooks (a compound word of magazine and book) have been published, which are produced and sold in magazine format but have similar content and characteristics to books, accelerating the diversification of publishing. In Japan, more than 20,000 different types of magazines are published, as shown in Table 2.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "mook" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…また読物誌だった《文芸春秋》(1923)は戦後,ドキュメンタリーに力をそそぎ,占領時代の暗部,保守政治の裏面,日本共産党の内部事情などを長編の記録読物として,戦後的な国民雑誌を実現した。また1970年代から,平凡社の《別冊太陽》(1972)の成功をさきがけとして書籍的な雑誌としてムックmook(magazineとbookの合成語)と呼ばれる雑誌群が現れ,急速に展開した。
【雑誌をめぐる現代の状況】
 大量部数の雑誌には,おびただしい数の広告が掲載されている。…

【出版】より

…そこで毎年数多くの新雑誌が生み出されると同時に,多くの雑誌が廃刊されていくスクラップ・アンド・ビルドが日常化している。また書籍に近い内容,性格をもちながら,雑誌形式で製作,販売されるムックmook(magazineとbookの合成語)と呼ばれるものも多く出版され,出版の多様化を加速している。日本では表2のとおり,2万点を超える各種の雑誌が出版されている。…

※「mook」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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