Dictionary

bookazine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bʊk.əˈziːn/
• /ˈbʊk.ə.ziːn/

Etymology

Blend of book + magazine.

Meanings

1. A publication combining elements of books and magazines.
   • 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. 1992, Spider Robinson, “Rah Rah R.A.H.!”, in Requiem, Tor, page 369:
   • It costs $34 for a two-year subscription, which includes access to all of their Web-based products and a quarterly print "bookazine." 2007, Mark Frauenfelder, Rule the Web, St. Martin's, page 140:
   • 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. 1984, Future Survey Annual 1983, World Future Society, 1984, p. 222

Forms

Synonyms

mook · mag book