'Magnificent Magforum'
- University of Westminister Journalism website

Books about magazines

Books: listed alphabetically by author surname

Resources: magazines, libraries, etc

Book publishers

Web links: sites on magazines and journalism (separate page)

Books

• Angeletti, N, and Oliva, A,
  Magazines That Make History: Their origins, development and influence, University Press of Florida, 2004.
  Two Argentinian journalists discuss eight magazines they consider to be among the most successful in the west: Time, Der Spiegel, Life, Paris Match, National Geographic, Reader's Digest, ¡Hola! and People

• Blackwell, L,
  The End of Print: The grafik design of David Carson,
  2nd edition,
  Laurence King, 2000.
  Views on Carson are divided but Beach Culture, Raygun and Blah, Blah (launch) were influential.
  David Carson Design

• Crewe, Quentin
  The Frontiers of Privilege: A century of social conflict as reflected in The Queen
  Stevens Press, 1961
  Social history seen through articles from the society and court magazine that never even mentioned the General Strike. Foreword by Jocelyn Stevens, editor-in-chief, The Queen

• Crowley, D,
  Magazine Covers,
  Mitchell Beazley, 2003

• Dancyger, I.,
  A World of Women: An illustrated history of women's magazines 1700-1970,
  Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1978
  Dancyger was a freelance journalist for magazines such as Woman and Women's Own. She paints a picture of 'widening, exciting and challenging women's magazine content' in a detailed work, complete with profiles of 15 prominent women writers and editors
  

• Davis, A,
  Magazine Journalism Today,
  Focal, 1988

• Glover, S (ed),
  Secrets of the Press: Journalists on journalism, Penguin, 1999.
  Glover was one of the founders of the Independent newspaper and editor of the Independent on Sunday. Chapters written by some of best names in journalism

• Gough-Yates, A,
  Understanding Women's Magazines
  Routledge, 2002.
  Academic analysis of women's market; focus on 1988-2000

• Dian Hanson
  The History of Girly Magazines: 1900-1969
  Taschen (November 2006)

• Jackson, P, Stevenson, N, and Brooks, K
  Making Sense of Men's Magazines
  Polity Press, 2001 

• Johnson, S, and Prijatel, P
  The Magazine From Cover to Cover: Inside a dynamic industry
  McGraw-Hill, 1999

• Jeremy Leslie
  Issues: New Magazine Design
  Laurence King, 2000
  Jeremy Leslie is group creative director at customer magazine publisher John Brown Citrus. He won Designer of the Year in Business & Professional Magazines in the 2004 PPA awards and Designer of the Year in the 2005 APA awards for M-Real.
  He runs the Magculture website.

• Jenny McKay
  The Magazines Handbook
  Routledge, 2000
  Comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry, covering its development and the roles and skills needed by journalists on magazines, from commissioning to writing to subbing and legal issues

• John Morrish
  Magazine Editing: How to develop and manage a successful publication
  Routledge 2003 2nd edn
  Focuses on the journalistic and managerial skills and knowledge needed by editors

• Mike Perry
  Over & Over: A catalogue of hand-drawn patterns
  Princeton Architectural Press, 2008
  This book is difficult to put down. Perry has scoured the world to track down the work of 50-odd illustrators whose minutely-detailed, wallpaperish graphics have adorned the likes of Dazed & Confused and the New York Times Magazine. I - and several other people - have spent hours poring over my copy. No-one with an interest in the visual will be disappointed

• Frances Quinn
  Law for Journalists,
  Longman 2007
  Lots of examples of legal issues that arise in reporting - on magazines, newspapers and online - make this an accessible book. Also sections on testing your knowledge with each chapter

• David Reed
  The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States (1880-1960),
  British Library, 1997.
  Very good academic study; full of detail and highly referenced

• Tim Southwell
  Getting Away with It: The inside story of Loaded,
  Ebury, 1998.
  View of the early Loaded years by its then deputy editor. He later set up Golf Punk publisher KYN

• Steve Taylor & Neville Brody
  100 Years of Magazine Covers
  Black Dog Publishing (27 Oct 2006)
  Highly illustrated book divided into themed chapters, on fashion and women's magazines, photo-journalism, music magazines and underground publications. Individual covers are discussed as well as the importance of titles and publishing houses.

• John Wharton
  Managing Magazine Publishing,
  Blueprint, 1992.
  Out of print but very good on the publishing side. More trade-based than consumer magazines

Resources 

• British Library has excellent sections on the history of newspapers, comics, and music and film magazines
• St Bride's Printing Library traces the roots of printing and publishing back 500 years (William Caxton's apprentice Wynkyn de Worde was buried in St Bride's Church)
• Media Week trade paper has searchable archive
• Press Gazette weekly trade paper for journalists. Searchable archive
• Folio: trade title for the US magazine industry
• Magazine World quarterly magazine of the FIPP

Book publishers 

Focal Press photography/imaging, journalism, graphics, animation, the web and writing 

Laurence King design and typography

Routledge has journalism and media studies lists