What is a magazine?

What makes a magazine a magazine? Bo Sacks, president of the Precision Media Group, told the Independent Magazine Advisory Group’s sixth annual meeting in Boulder, Colorado this week that a magazine has the following properties. (Thanks to Tony Silber of Folio: for reporting on them.)1. It’s metered. It’s paginated. It has a beginning, middle and end.2. It’s edited, or curated.3. It’s