bookazine

bookazine

English

Etymology

Blend of book +‎ magazine

Noun

bookazine (plural bookazines)

1. A publication combining elements of books and magazines.
   • 1984, Future Survey Annual 1983, World Future Society, 1984, p. 222

     A "bookazine" (in a readable, nonacademic, magazine style), created by a non-linear "organic process," to provide a systemic view of the global transition that is already under way.

   • 1992, Spider Robinson, "Rah Rah R.A.H.!", Requiem, Tor, p. 369

     It was a quarterly paperback bookazine from Ace, a book filled with fiction and speculative fact and artwork and all the little extras that make up a magazine, and it was the most consistently satisfying and thought-provoking periodical that came into my house, not excluding Omni and the Scientific American.

   • 2007, Mark Frauenfelder, Rule the Web, St. Martin's, p. 140

     It costs $34 for a two-year subscription, which includes access to all of their Web-based products and a quarterly print "bookazine."

Synonyms

• mag book
• mook