Trade magazine
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A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or professional magazine (and colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.[1] The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press.[2]
Trade publications keep industry members abreast of new developments. In this role, it functions similarly to how academic journals or scientific journals serve their audiences. Trade publications include targeted advertising, which earns a profit for the publication and sales for the advertisers while also providing sales engineering–type advice to the readers, that may inform purchasing and investment decisions.
Trade magazines typically contain advertising content centered on the industry in question with little, if any, general-audience advertising. They may also contain industry-specific job notices.[3]
For the printed publications, some trade magazines operate on a type of subscription business model known as controlled circulation, in which the subscription is free but is restricted only to subscribers determined to be qualified leads.
See also
References
- ^ Virginia Tech Libraries. "Magazines, trade journals, and scholarly journals". Retrieved 2017-02-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Business English Dictionary
- ^ Gillian Page; Robert Campbell; Arthur Jack Meadows (1997). Journal Publishing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44137-4.
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