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An ezine is a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website. Ezines are typically tightly focused on a subject area. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that ezine be merged into this article or section. ... To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website. ... E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ...

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Ezine Pronunciation and Derivation

From time to time differences in pronunciation arise, probably due to lack of careful thought about its origins.


The word "ezine" or "e-zine" is a contraction of "electronic magazine". That suggests that the correct pronunciation should be "ee-zeen" rather than "ee-zyne" or "ee-zign" (as in "design").


This is further supported by traditional usage in terms like "fan-zines", a long-established form of periodical, especially in the science fiction community.


Ezine History

CULT OF THE DEAD COW claims to have published the first ezine, starting in 1984, with its ezine still in production more than 20 years later. While this claim is hotly debated, ezines certainly began in the BBS days of the 1980s. Phrack began publication in 1985 and, unlike CULT OF THE DEAD COW which publishes articles individually, Phrack published collections of articles in a manner more similar to a print magazine. Phrack ceased production in 2005. CULT OF THE DEAD COW, also known as cDc, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ward Christensen and the computer that ran the first public Bulletin Board System, CBBS A Bulletin Board System or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and... Phrack is an underground ezine made by and for hackers that has been around since November 17, 1985. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In the late 1990s Ezine publishers began adapting to the interactive qualities of the Internet instead of duplicating magazines on the web. Some of these attempts included Kafenio (ISSN 1108-6866) and Zone451 (now renamed JustSayGo and first published in traditional format in 1995). Themestream (2001, now defuct[1]) was another attempt at generating content by opening its pages to everybody who cared to write and get paid by the click. Webseed tried to take up on the idea but to the contrary of Themestream created individual zines.[2] This experiment was terminated shortly after the dot-com crash though some of the zines created are still on the market such as NatureOfAnimals or FranceForFreebooters. Look up click in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Dot-com bubble (or dot-com speculative bubble) refers to the approximately four years of time (1997–2001) in which stock markets in Western nations had their value increase rapidly and most significantly in the technology and new Internet sector. ...


The tendency seems to be that the new concepts of the Ezines go more towards interactive content and those using old fashioned layouts are slowly ceasing publication, such as zinos. These changing trends are in part due to escalating problems getting ezines past ever-more-vigilant spam filters and to the increasing popularity of weblogs (blogs). Many established ezines have now become little more than teasers for web-based versions, or for blog versions that provide greater interaction.

Sole Proprietor Magazineâ„¢ is an entrepreneurial business publication dedicated to presenting you with stories of individual achievement and giving you the information and tools you need to start your own business. ... Webmonkey is an online tutorial website compromised of various articles on building webpages from the backend to frontend. ...

See also

A Cyberzine (a portmanteau of Cyberspace, which itself is a portmanteau word, and magazine) is a magazine almost entirely online (occasionally may have a print version too). ... A diskmag is an electronic magazine that can be read using computers. ... Online journals are publications of a serial nature that make use of digital distribution methods. ... An underground ezine is a publication without defined periodicity that discusses any subject which the publisher deems interesting or newsworthy. ... A Webzine is an ezine hosted on the World Wide Web rather than in print. ... A zine—an abbreviation of the word magazine—is most commonly a small circulation, non-commercial publication of original or appropriated texts and images. ... Front page of textfiles. ...

References

  1. ^ Themestream.com is closing its doors
  2. ^ Webseed

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Ezine Advertising Strategy (982 words)
Ezines (short for 'electronic magazines') are email newsletters that are sent out regularly to subscribers, like the one you're reading.
You might place your ad in 5 different ezines and get a hundred responses, but if you don't track your ads, you won't know which ezines were pulling responses and which weren't.
Check to see if the ezine publisher has a policy of never running ads for two similar products in the same issue - your ad will be much more effective if its the only one of its kind in that particular issue.
Ezine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (407 words)
An ezine is a periodic publication distributed by email or posted on a website.
Ezines are typically tightly focused on a subject area.
While this claim is hotly debated, ezines certainly began in the BBS days of the 1980s.
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