Muy Interesante
{{Short description|Monthly popular science magazine in Spain}}
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| total_circulation = 208,880
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Muy Interesante ('Very Interesting') is a monthly popular science magazine which deals with fun facts and current events, such as the development of nanotechnology, physics, biology, astronomy, genetics, neurosciences, new investigations and inventions, and world affairs.
History and profile
Muy Interesante was first published in May 1981.{{cite book|title=The Europa World Year: Kazakhstan - Zimbabwe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3908|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-85743-255-8|page=3906|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216103620/https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_-8rXzQs8C&pg=PA3908|archive-date=16 February 2017|url-status=live}} The owner and publisher of the magazine is Grupo G+J España Ediciones, S.L., a subsidiary of the German media company Bertelsmann.{{cite book|author1=Anthony Weymouth|author2=Bernard Lamizet|title=Markets and Myths: Forces For Change In the European Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8O3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-88970-0|page=128|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303204120/https://books.google.com/books?id=E8O3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|archive-date=3 March 2017|url-status=live}} The magazine is published monthly.{{cite web|title=Muy Interesante Magazine|url=http://www.newsstand.co.uk/128-Spanish-Magazines/10933-Subscribe-to-MUY-INTERESANTE-Magazine-Subscription.aspx|work=Newsstand|accessdate=22 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222173907/http://www.newsstand.co.uk/128-Spanish-Magazines/10933-Subscribe-to-MUY-INTERESANTE-Magazine-Subscription.aspx|archive-date=22 February 2015|url-status=live}} The headquarters of the magazine is in Madrid.
The magazine is also published in Mexico (Editorial Televisa); Argentina (Editorial Televisa, 1986); Colombia (Editorial Cinco); and as Super Interessante in Brazil (Editora Abril, 1987), Portugal (Edimpresa Editora, 1998) and Chile (Editorial Lord Cochrane, 1987).
Circulation
The circulation of Muy Interesante was 284,284 copies in 1993, making it the tenth best-selling magazine in Spain.{{cite web|title=Top paid-circulation consumer magazines|url=http://adage.com/article/news/top-paid-circulation-consumer-magazines-chart/82843/|work=Ad Age|accessdate=15 March 2015|date=17 April 1995|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402102004/http://adage.com/article/news/top-paid-circulation-consumer-magazines-chart/82843/|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}} In 1997 the magazine sold 282,155 copies.{{cite book|author=Edward F. Stanton|title=Culture and Customs of Spain|date=2002|publisher=Greenwood Press
|location=Westport, CT|page=97|isbn=978-0313360800}} The average circulation of the monthly was 267,442 in 2003 and 259,545 copies in 2004.{{cite book|editor=Tim Holmes|title=Mapping the Magazine: Comparative Studies in Magazine Journalism|date=13 September 2013|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRrcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-99588-3|page=102}} It was the sixth best-selling Spanish magazine in 2005 with a circulation of 258,297 copies.{{cite web|author=Ramón Salaverría|title=The Spanish Media Landscape
|url=http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/36289/1/Spanish_media_landscape__Salaverria.pdf|work=Dadun. Universidad de Navarra|accessdate=24 April 2015|format=Book chapter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812075451/http://dadun.unav.edu/bitstream/10171/36289/1/Spanish_media_landscape__Salaverria.pdf|archive-date=12 August 2016|url-status=live}}
Muy Interesante sold 208,880 copies in 2009.{{cite web|title=World magazine trends 2010/2011. Spain|url=http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|work=FIPP|accessdate=13 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621140534/http://www.revistas-ari.com/attachments/209_WMT_2010_2011_Spain.pdf|archive-date=21 June 2012|url-status=dead}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.muyinteresante.es}}
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Category:1981 establishments in Spain
Category:Magazines established in 1981
Category:Magazines published in Madrid
Category:Monthly magazines published in Spain
Category:Spanish-language magazines
Category:Science and technology magazines published in Spain