January 15th, 2012Choosing Your Pick
Choosing a magazine from thousands of options available can be quite a task. Though at the same time it is quite interesting to see that the vast sea of magazines around us can be easily put into 3 categories-
1) General Interest Magazines
It focuses on a wide range of audiences and includes various topics which could be understood from the point of view of a common man (come on all of us can’t be scholars after all). These magazine subscription services include great articles based on the current scenario (together with great pictures). Freelance writers or general staff write these articles. The Economist, The New Yorker etc all fall in this particular category.
2) Scholarly Magazines
As the name suggests these are magazines which provide you with detailed information on a large number of topics. The information is provided in a strict format (yes, you got it right it will definitely remind you of those age old school books). It is generally supported by lots of graphs and charts. It includes matter like research results, experiments and so on. These are written by the people who carry on the research work. American business law general, Journal of geophysical research etc comes under this category.
3) Sensational magazines
Did you just think that these are for creating sensation among the readers? Then you are absolutely right. The sole purpose of these magazines is to get the attention of the reader. For this they use catchy headings and are generally very attractive. Even the articles included are fairly simple and easy to understand. Magazines like Ebony, Vogue etc fall in this category.
Now that you know what are the different kinds of magazines you can pick from, go ahead and get your pick either from a store or make use of the many magazine subscription services available online.


