1. The earliest known magazine was German and was named Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen.

2. The first American magazine was actually called American Magazine.

3. Reader’s Digest was founded in 1955 by DeWitt Wallace.

4. The first magazines were mostly based on gossip.

5. Around the 1900s, less-expensive magazines began to appeal to a broader audience than the “quality” magazines before.

6. The first magazine in India was published not by Indians but by the British.

7. When the multicolor rotary press was developed in the 1890s, color magazines became common.