A
fan magazine is a commercially written and published
magazine intended for the amusement of
fans of the
popular culture subject matter which it covers. It is distinguished from a scholarly or literary magazine on the one hand, by the target audience of its contents, and from a
fanzine on the other, by the commercial and for-profit nature of its production and distribution. Scholarly works on popular culture and
fandoms do not always make this terminological distinction clear. In some relevant works, fanzines are called "fan magazines", possibly because the term "fanzine" is seen as
slang.