How to find the number of pages in back issues of magazines.

imjosh — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:44:36 -0800

Please help me find out how many pages are in back issues of several popular magazines. I'm doing some research into shrinking magazine size and one portion of this is to try and find the number of pages in several magazines, specifically; Blender, Esquire, WIRED, Maxim and SPIN. Ideally I'd love to know the number of pages v. ads in every issue but I think that's a reach.

Do you know where I could track this information down?

Is there a certain person on a magazine staff who I should approach to try and find this?

Do you have the last 12 issues of any of these and can help me out?

Perhaps I should hire an Amazon turker...

Esquire, not Doctor.

LGCNo6 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:01:27 -0800

I'm a lawyer who can't understand why some lawyers insist on laying claim to having a doctorate. They don't, of course. Why this insecurity? By any standard, a doctorate is a degree that reflects years of coursework, followed by years and years of working on a piece of original research that provides a new contribution to the knowledge of the field it's done in. Law school, as hard as it may be (and I went to a Top 3 law school) just doesn't do anything like this.

This is why in other countries, law is an undergraduate degree. So why do so many of my Esq. colleagues want so badly to claim to be Dr. X? Makes no sense, and honestly, makes our profession look bad.

One of my (famous) law school profs told us once that the "Doctor" in "Juris Doctor" is an adjective, not a noun, implying that a person with the degree is entitled to practice law and alter law. Doctor of Philosophy, on the other hand, well, that's clearly a noun. Any insight?

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How to find the number of pages in back issues of magazines.

Esquire, not Doctor.