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See the English page on Wikipedia:
Pulp magazine

It says: "Pulp magazines (often referred to as" the pulps ") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s."

You also write:
Perry Rhodan (at least the soft cover copies) is pulp to me, so a magazine.

Perry Rhodan, however, only started in the 60s and continues until now.

Maybe it should be more about the appearance of what a magazine is and give examples?

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With pulp sheets it is indeed more about the shape (soft, cheap, etc.) than when they are published.

For example, in the Dutch book there is a list of 5 pages with pulp sheets that issued between 1960 and 2000. Everything for 1960 has been worked out in detail. Not since 1960. It does not include editions after 2000, because that was when the book itself was published.
That actually also applies to the English-language pulp magazines.

Perry Rhodan is mentioned in that Dutch book about pulp sheets with 3 series:
  • publishing house Born / 1965
  • publisher Romanpers / 1965
  • publishing house Romanpers / 1970 - the reprints
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@Rene
The “comic” editions, which you mentioned a bit earlier, are often mixed-bag or graphic novels, but also on relatively cheap paper. some exceptions to proposals. Such as a mixed-bag with 1 or 2 comic pages or one with just a few plain text pages and the rest one or more comics.

There you would, taking into account the classification by LD in comics and periodicals, then go to the the intention of the expenditure. What is also possible: what is most dominantly present.

Visual novels (often 1 whole story in 1 edition) also exist in drawn and photographed form. The drawn in my opinion under comics and the photographed under magazines.

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There have also been endless discussions by the club that compiled that book, a club of pulp collectors, about what is and what is not "pulp". Ultimately, it was the only viable compromise; A soft cover book with a staple through it, which may or may not be published periodically. So they all thought it was a “book”. If you omit that, all comic series that meet that criterion would also be “pulp”, but yes, those are comics, not books, right? But magazines or not?
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Pulp seems to me to be a difficult criterion in practice.

Perhaps we should go by the Wikipedia definition of magazine that Tammo started with:
A periodical, periodical, monthly or weekly (also magazine, English) is a periodical publication that consists of a collection of articles per issue. A magazine may contain paid advertisements. In other cases, the magazine is funded entirely by the sales price or functions as a means of communication to members and donors of an organization. Most magazines rely on mixed funding based on advertising and sales.
A magazine differs from a daily newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.

And then see where the exact boundary between books and magazines lies based on practical examples such as Perry Rhodan? If there is a reasonable consensus on a number of examples, then perhaps additional criteria can be extracted from them?

The first six volumes of Perry Rhodan are now in books and the sequels are in magazines . Based on external characteristics, I think it's best to say something for that. If that is shared, then we could look at those external characteristics and perhaps deduce a tightening of the definition of magazine from that?


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That Dutch definition is fine. What I have some difficulty with is “bundling of articles”.
The photographed graphic novel with 1 story would then not fall under magazines but books. Despite the often floppy cover with staple and cheaper paper than “regular” magazines.
And the later Perry Rhodan is therefore not covered. After all, it is only 1 story / article per volume.
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Maybe then:
A magazine, periodical, monthly or weekly (also magazine, English) is a periodical publication that consists of one or more articles and/or photos per issue. A magazine may contain paid advertisements. In other cases, the magazine is funded entirely by the sales price or functions as a means of communication to members and donors of an organization. Most magazines rely on mixed funding based on advertising and sales.
A magazine differs from a daily newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.

If I shorten it a bit and add "(intended as)" (to cover proof issues, and magazines that stopped after nr 1) then I think it could also be:

A magazine is (intended as) a periodical publication that consists of one or more articles and/or photos per issue. A magazine may contain paid advertisements and/or be financed by the sale price, or function as a means of communication to members or customers of an organization.
A magazine differs from a daily newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.

Perhaps add some external characteristics to that, such as: a magazine is almost always thinner than an average book, held together by staples or a glued spine?

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Why is everyone at LD so reluctant to call the creature by its name? A magazine is a collection of articles, according to Tammo's definition. If there is only one article, it is a book or a comic. All books, which at the time had the sort of “pulp magazine”, or “magazine” in the series name, were moved en masse by thousands at a time to “magazines”, and from the “Comics” section zero, nada. And there are also a lot of real magazines in it, such as the “Donald Duck”, “Tattoo”, “Okki” etc. Yes there are also comics in it, but they are or were also in the “Libellle” and the “Panorama”. ,
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For the mixed-bag comic magazines, you're right, Enigma. I don't really care if they're under comics or magazines. Strictly speaking, many of those publications will indeed have to be classified as periodicals. So I totally agree with you there.
Only the comic collectors will have to agree with that. After all, they use it the most.
What makes this discussion so difficult is that both form and content are discussed at the same time. After all, a comic is a book or magazine in terms of form, but a drawn story (or comic strip) in terms of content.

For the one-story magazines, I disagree with you. Because in my opinion they are not books. I pay particular attention to the form and frequency of publication, not to the content.

Here is the Wikipedia definition of (paper) books:
A book is made up of the inside, consisting of quires , and an outside, the cover or binding :
  • Sections consist of sheets of printed paper (one-sided or double-sided broadsheet ) folded once or several times, which are pushed together in a certain order (according to the so-called imposition scheme ) or placed on top of each other. The method of folding and the composition of the quires both determine the numbering to be applied to the pages to be distinguished on the quire. After cutting to size, the quires are assembled into the 'book block': for example, sewn together (broken) and/or glued (lumbacked) in the binding, with or without endpapers. The book block is the core of the book. With sewn quires, the endpapers serve to glue the binding to the book block. Glued books often do not have endpapers, because their function is not necessary.
  • The binding consists, in whole or in part, of a front cover, a back cover and a spine. Because book block and book binding are manufactured separately, incorrect bindings can occur in different editions: old book blocks in new, changed book bindings and vice versa. Some books have a wrapper , a way of attracting attention.

Those sheets do not meet that requirement, after all, no book block, binding, etc. So no book.

Also, if a book is only allowed to have one story, what do we do with the books that contain multiple short stories?
Like in the kind of Short stories or Travel Guides .
So they are not allowed there.
The shape is leading there, in my opinion. Not the content.
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@Rene,
A magazine is (intended as) a periodic publication that per issue consists of one or more articles and / or photos. A magazine can contain paid advertising and / or be funded by the sale price, or act as a communication tool to members or customers of an organization.
A magazine is distinguished from a newspaper by the frequency of publication, by a substantive theme and by having a cover.
That with some external form characteristics that usually apply, as far as I'm concerned does cover the load, I believe.
- no binding
- only quire
- staples, binding wire, glued
- no hard cover
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@enigma,


Why is everyone at LD so reluctant to call the creature by its name? A magazine is a collection of articles, according to Tammo's definition. If there is only one article, it is a book or a comic

We are not hesitant, but we would like a practical definition for which there is support. If everyone regards something - by appearance - as a magazine and it is already in the magazine section, then we must in any case have good arguments with support to transfer it to books.

Is it true that you do not want to look at external characteristics at all, but would purely base yourself on these questions:
- is it published periodically?
- does it consist of several articles / photos?
- does it not have a unique title?
- does it not have only one author?

Where with 4x yes to these questions it is a magazine and otherwise a book?
Is it true that you see it that way? ?
And is it always a book if, for example, 2 or 3 of the 4 questions yield a "yes" but the other does not.

If we were to apply this strictly then Perry Rhodan , Lord Lister ed to books, while most people consider these editions to be magazines I think. The latter does not have to be a problem in itself, but some support would be good. How do others perceive this?

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@DeBijzaak,

That with some external form characteristics that usually apply, as far as I'm concerned does cover the load, I believe.
- no binding
- only quire
- staples, binding wire, glued
- no hard cover

Would you like to label something as a magazine if it meets these external characteristics and appears / has been published periodically? As far as you are concerned, these questions do not have to be answered with "yes" to call it a magazine:
- does it consist of multiple articles / photos?
- does it not have a unique title?
- does it not have only one author?

Then as far as you are concerned the Perry Rhodans (except the first 6) and the Lord Listers would stick with magazines if I understand correctly.


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@Rene,
Yes, that's what it comes down to, REne.
Judging mainly on form, not on content or theme.
However, there are always doubtful cases, but generalizing you have understood me correctly.

I can well imagine that the comic magazines will remain under comics.
I believe that is because that category was established on the basis of the content and not the form.

We now see the same with the theme of aviation, which also contains many postcards, models and other things, which also have their own category.
Then we have an Alcoholics/Beverage category, but also a separate wine category. And also derivatives such as beer mats and labels. There are still a few to name.

To avoid that kind of confusion, I think form should over substance or theme.
Only one classification criterion for the main categories. In addition , a content, persons or theme register can be set up.

Shape, content, theme, names, color, etc. are all different types of access points.
Then it is a bad idea to create categories based on 2 or more of those access points. At least that's how I see it.

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To avoid that kind of confusion, I think form should be over content or theme.
This has been the case in LD for years, just not for use in the comic book section. It will also make me curious if there is at all 1 comic sheet going to this section.
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For me,
-Perry Rhodan
-Colt 45
-Jerry Cotton
-Lord Lister

and there are more,
just a magazine.

And also Donald Duck. Tintin, Spirou, etc.


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@Rene,
That is indeed yes for all 4 questions. With the caveat that some titles may have been written by two authors. As such, or under a collective pseudonym.
The three most important things it should definitely meet are, firstly: “No unique title” and secondly, “it is periodically published”, and thirdly “it contains several“ articles ”, although I have to mention it here too. make a reservation that there are also publications with a unique title, and often a unique hero, who sometimes had a few pages of comics in the back to promote sales.
You can discuss endlessly and try to substantiate that something with a soft cover and a staple through it, which is published periodically, is a “magazine”, but if you take that as a criterion then there are still some tens of thousands of items wrong in CW and not only in comics, because however you get used to it comics are also books, with pictures. I notice that many users simply enter these so-called magazines with books or comics. If only because the fields of books are made for exactly this, you can also enter the original title and search and group on it if you want. And much of this so-called "pulp" has a foreign origin, mainly German.
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@Enigma and @DeBijzaak, Clear. In particular, you agree that a magazine is published periodically.

DeBijzaak: you also want it to meet a number of criteria regarding the form.

Enigma: you only think something is a magazine as well applies:
- that it consists of several articles / photos?
- that it does not have a unique title.

Here we will have to choose between (or possibly a combination of criteria). Opinions of others on this are very welcome.


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If you maintain that: one story, Enigma, then I am curious what you do with my previous example:


In addition, if a book can only have one story, what do we do with the books that contain several short stories?
As in the type Short-stories or Travel guides .
They are not allowed there.
The form is leading there, I think. Not the content.

In addition, there are also book series (in terms of form) that do not have a unique title. E.g. Encyclopedias or catalogs in book form. I am convinced that there are still more to be found.
Where should they go then?

Incidentally, I think it is strange that you keep one story, but if there are 2 authors behind a pseudonym, that's okay.

The “pulp” edition Perry Rhodan has no unique title, after all the series name is Perry Rhodan. The fact that every story has its own title does not alter that fact.

And in my opinion the same applies to Colt45, Western44, Hollister, Professor Zamorra, Donald Duck Weekly, Eppo, Pep, Arend, Eagle, etc. . etc. Name them all.
As Morits also points out.
Means: IF we agree that there must be a lot of shifting. So be it.

As far as the possible foreign origin of a story or publication is concerned, the relevance escapes me in this discussion. Can you explain that further?
Original title doesn't matter much in that case. After all, you can enter the original title for magazines. And if the same title is used in several countries, then you put the three-digit ISO country code between brackets.
A missing field as the original title is also not a valid reason to name something different than it really is. . Adding a field to magazines for the original title is also a solution, I think.
So I don't see why such an edition must necessarily be added to books for that reason.

And that we still have a lot of have to move, yes. I totally agree with you. If we want to have a good catalog, in the end, we can't escape that.

As Fazerco points out to my opinion that form should take precedence over content or theme:
This has been the case for years in LD, just not for use in the comic section.
There are more places where that (in the beginning) did not go well. Aviation, separate wine instead of placing it under drink, glass and crystal (no shape or theme but material), compilation albums not under books, etc. etc.

In my opinion, a lot of work should not be a criterion, but no quality to strive.
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More on this:


Incidentally, I can very well imagine that the comic magazines will remain under comics.
In my opinion, that is because that category is determined on the basis of the content and not the form.

We see the same thing now with the theme aviation, which also contains many postcards, models and other things, which also have their own category.
Then we have a category Alcoholic / Beverage, but also a separate category wine. And also derivatives such as beer coasters and labels. There are still a few to name.

To avoid that kind of confusion, I think form should be above content or theme.
Only one classification criterion for the main categories.

Progressive insight has indeed taught us that we should not distinguish categories thematically / by content but on the basis of form.
Aviation is indeed a category that does not meet this requirement.

V.w.b. comics I disagree with you. I can recognize a comic book by its shape without even reading the story. The fact that there are now also things in Comics that have a clearly different form, such as calendars and agendas, is something temporary. They still have to go to separate sections.


because however you get used to it comics are also books

That's right. It is a specification of books. But in my opinion, specializations are perfectly applicable as a category. Otherwise you could also say that there should be one Paper / Print section where all books, comics, magazines, calendars, agendas, postcards etc. etc. should be in. If something in itself is interesting enough and we have enough items of it in the catalog then we can differentiate it. For example, Model cars, Model trains, etc. were once again created from Toys and there are enough parts in Other that could also be their own section.


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And one more thing to consider. Magazines are rarely, if ever, reprinted, except as an occasional issue to commemorate some event. They are never translated, why should they be translated? Many, if not all, of these so-called "pulp" magazines are translations of foreign series, such as e.g. Perry Rhodan and Jerry Cotton, to name a few. They therefore also exist in other languages, and are sometimes reprinted, under a different number, because that is cheaper than having new ones translated and the supply of new parts will sometimes stagnate.
Then there are the so-called Belgian small books, imported in large numbers at “Books”. Especially the pre-war ones; newspaper with a staple through it. They appeared every week, although for some you will have to get that from the literature, because they were often undated. An example: Hans Children's Library, more than 1000 songs already before the war, nothing dated, and some, reprinted under the same number. It does say that, I even have one that says “sixth edition”.
I fully understand that comic collectors prefer to see their comic magazines in “comics” than in “magazines”. I just note that apparently two measures are taken. Why have my books moved to “magazines”?
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Is it true that you do not want to look at appearance at all but would purely base yourself on these questions:
- is it published periodically?
- does it consist of several articles / photos?
- does it have no unique title?
- doesn't it have just one author?

It remains difficult to make a clear distinction between Book and Magazine. You have the intuitive choice that, for example, Lord Lister is a Magazine, and on the other hand, the rational choice that, for example, Perry Rhodan is classified as a Book.

With Enigma I agree that with a Yes to the 3-4 questions , this yields a rational choice that provides more clarity than other considerations.

The Comic Magazines do not seem to be in doubt. All to Magazines with the Type of Comic Magazine. Of course only after it has been ensured that no data will be lost and that there are good links with Comics.
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@Rene

V.w.b. comics I disagree with you. I can recognize a comic book by its shape without even reading the story. The fact that there are now also things in Comics that have a clearly different form, such as calendars and agendas, is something temporary. They still have to go to separate sections.

I'm not saying that we should just shut down comics.
Then we end up in the same discussion again, thanks to the differences in European (album form) and American comic culture (magazine or comic form). This is very defensible.

The point of discussion for comics was mainly about mixed-bag publications, a combination of several, whether or not complete, stories supplemented with text articles. :)

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What I don't get is why the first list below is better than the second:
From Enigma
- has it been published periodically?
- does it consist of several articles / photos?
- does it not have a unique title?
- does it not have only one author?

Myself
- no binding
- only quire
- staples, binding wire, glued
- no hard cover
- periodically published

I maintain that also Perry Rhodan (for example) has only 1 title sequence name. Otherwise it's not called that, is it?

I don't really see what reprint has to do with it, after all, many books have not been reprinted either.

And also no answer to my question what we then have to do with the books that contain several short stories. They are not allowed there according to Enigma.
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I am trying to define magazine. Everyone knows what a book is, there is no discussion about that. I also try not to describe the book, because there is no discussion about that either. About the difference between a book and a magazine. And I have never talked about what may or may not be in a book, to be called a book.
I haven't mentioned the “series name” anywhere, which is different from “title”. At the time, they found out with comics that that didn't work with magazines. Then all Libelle's and “Donald Duck's” have the same title and the title was also the same as the “series name”. The only thing they distinguished was the number and year, but they were in other fields. So the title of a magazine, the name of the magazine plus the number, and the series name became the year.
This has never been the case with books, except for real magazines, where the series name became identical to the title. That is not the case with the Perry Rhodans and all those others, there the title is unique, and distinct from the series name.
Sure, books are being reprinted, but certainly not all. Magazines are never reprinted. This is due to the Dutch word “Tijjdschrift”. The English word Magazine means something else. It is called in the Dutch magazine because it is time-bound, yesterday's newspaper is old news. They are both periodicals, because they were both published periodically. The column is called magazines and not Periodicals, because then I would also see no problem in the fact that all yearbooks would also be included. But I don't believe that was ever meant to be.
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But you can also just enter the story title at the bottom of magazines?

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Yes, certainly. as part. But it is not a mandatory field there, as it is everywhere else, and at the top.
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