BEDSHEET

BEDSHEET:    A term used to describe a magazine format, in contrast to pulp and DIGEST. The bedsheet format - sometimes called large pulp format - is the largest of the three; it varies slightly but approximates 8.5 x 11.75in (216 x 298mm) - i.e., close to A4 (210 x 297mm). It was used by some of the more prestigious PULP MAGAZINES in the 1920s and 1930s and, in a slightly narrower version, became popular again in the late 1960s with such magazines as NEW WORLDS and VISION OF TOMORROW; these, having fewer pages than the earlier bedsheet magazines, were stapled rather than glued. Magazines of this type, when printed on coated paper, are often called slicks; although the term "slick" refers to paper quality rather than size, slicks (e.g., OMNI) are normally in a smallish bedsheet format.

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