I am just curious as to what the "official" differences between a book and a magazine are, in regards to <i>Pathfinder</i> being a book and <i>Dungeon</i> and <i>Dragon</i> both being magazines. I only ask because long long ago (prior to subscribing), when I looked for <i>Dragon</i> in bookstores, I could never find it with the other magazines. Eventually several employees told me it was classified as a book. I also wonder if the classification has anything to do with shipping rates/costs.
Can you tell I have too much time on myhands today? Thanks.
In Canada it's considered they were considered magazines (I assume) and I always saw them in the magazine section. A book like Pathfinder would be in the "games" section.
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Magazines have ads in them that often interrupt and break up the flow of the text; books (with the sometimes exeption of one or two pages of ads near the back) do not.
Magazines have a shelf-life in the store of 30 days and are then generally destroyed; books stay on there for months or even years.
Magazines are generally printed on flimsy paper; books are generally more durable and last longer.
There's plenty of more tiny little differences, of course, but those are the three that immediatley jump to my mind.
Thanks, that clears it up a bit, and makes sense, with my recollection of various "magazines" staying on the shelves for an extended period of time many years ago.