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Cover date refers to the date displayed on the covers of periodical publications such as magazines and comic books. This is not necessarily the true date of publication. For some publications, the cover date may not actually be found on the cover, but rather on an inside jacket or on an interior page. ==Magazines== In the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, the standard practice is to display on magazine covers a date which is some weeks or months in the future from the actual publishing/release date. There are two reasons for this discrepancy: first, to allow magazines to continue appearing "current" to consumers even after they have been on sale for some time (since not all magazines will be sold immediately), and second, to inform newsstands when an unsold magazine can be removed from the stands and returned to the publisher or be destroyed (in this case, the cover date is also the pull date). Weeklies (such as ''Time'' and ''Newsweek'') are generally dated a week ahead. Monthlies (such as ''National Geographic Magazine'') are generally dated a month ahead, and quarterlies are generally dated three months ahead. In other countries, the cover date usually matches more closely the date of publication, and may indeed be identical where weekly magazines are concerned. In all markets, it is rare for monthly magazines to indicate a particular day of the month: thus issues are dated ''May 2005'', and so on, whereas weekly magazines may be dated ''17 May 2005''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cover date」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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