…A publication that is published at regular intervals over a long period of time. Together with newspapers and printed correspondence, it is sometimes called a periodical, or in libraries, a serial, but compared to newspapers, each issue has a stronger sense of unity in content, and consideration is given to editing, printing, and binding so that it can withstand longer publication intervals. Although it is a continuous publication, unlike a series of books, which have a clear overall content from the beginning and which are then added up over time, the focus is on publishing each issue, and the publication period results in a trial development (or contraction)… From Reader's Digest…A pocket-sized monthly magazine first published in 1922 in Greenwich Village, New York, by DeWitt Wallace (1889-1981), the son of an American preacher. Starting with a circulation of 5,000 copies at the time of its launch, it is now published in 17 languages and 41 editions, including the Spanish version "Selecciones" for Latin America and the Japanese version launched in June 1946, and boasts the world's largest circulation of 31 million copies (1984) in 170 countries. … *Some of the terminology that mentions "Wallace, De W." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…一定の間隔をおき長期にわたって刊行を続ける出版物。新聞や印刷通信物などとあわせて定期刊行物periodical,または図書館などにおいては逐次刊行物などと呼ばれることもあるが,新聞などにくらべると1号ごとの内容的なまとまりが強く,発行間隔がより長いことに耐えうるような編集,印刷,造本などの配慮がなされる。継続刊行ではあっても,双書などのように当初から全容がはっきりしていてその部分をかさねてゆくのとは異なり,1号ごとの刊行が主眼となり誌齢は試行の発展(または縮小)として結果する。… 【リーダーズ・ダイジェスト】より…アメリカの説教師の息子のウォーレスDeWitt Wallace(1889‐1981)夫妻が1922年,ニューヨークのグリニチ・ビレッジで創刊したポケットサイズの月刊雑誌。創刊時の5000部から出発して,次いで出された中南米向けのスペイン語版《セレクシオネス》や46年6月に創刊された日本語版をはじめ今や17ヵ国語,41版で発行され,世界170ヵ国で3100万部(1984)に達して世界最大の発行部数を誇る。… ※「Wallace,De W.」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。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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