An email newsletter is a type of electronic mailing list or notification service that is used to distribute messages to a specific group of recipients. An email newsletter is also sometimes called a “distributed announcement service.
” Most email newsletters are sent as an automated message to subscribers’ email addresses, but some are also published as web pages or RSS feeds.
Email newsletters differ from magazines in several ways. First, email newsletters are typically limited to distributing information about one specific topic or issue. Magazines, by contrast, often have longer articles, often with multiple sections, that can be read in any order. Second, email newsletters are typically sent periodically (as often as daily), while magazines may be published less frequently and typically contain more than one article per issue.
Third, email newsletters tend to be much less expensive to maintain than magazines. Finally, email newsletters are typically used to distribute information about products or services that the publisher has created, while magazines are usually used to provide information about topics that interest their readers.