Trade magazine

1928 issue of Popular Aviation, which became the largest aviation magazine with a circulation of 100,000[1]

A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.[2] The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press.[3]

  1. ^ "Again, Mitchell". Time Magazine. Time. June 10, 1929. Archived from the original on May 21, 2013. Retrieved August 26, 2007. "Monthly magazine until this month called Popular Aviation and Aeronautics. With 100,000 circulation it is largest-selling of U. S. air publications." "Editor of Aeronautics is equally airwise Harley W. Mitchell, no relative of General Mitchell."
  2. ^ "Magazines, trade journals, and scholarly journals". Virginia Tech Libraries. Archived from the original on February 13, 2017. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  3. ^ dictionary.cambridge.org, Cambridge Business English Dictionary