I am a translator looking for a technical term in English that describes a physical section of a newspaper:
A newspaper (like USA Today) consists of many pages. These pages, folded together are grouped in sections. Several of these sections folded together make up the whole newspaper. I am looking for a term for these sections - not something like “the sports pages” or “the politics pages”, but the physical object.
For German speakers: the German term is “Zeitungsbund”.
Did I explain that right? Maybe I should mail my degree back where it came from …
Thanks - that’s what I thought. The German word is a real technical term used by printing staff. A layman would use the German word for “sections”, but printing staff use a different one.
We use “section” to describe the part that contains the front page. The other parts (we put them inside the front section) are referred to as “inserts.”
I don’t know if that’s the common terminology, or just what we call them at our newpaper.
There is a technical term from the book & magazine publishing industry (…but I don’t think it’s used in the newspaper industry…)that fits your description: “signature.”
A signature is what you get when you print many (say, 8 to 64)book-sized pages on one giant sheet; the giant sheet is then folded to the size of a page; for larger books and mags several signatures are bundled together; the signature(s) is staple or stitch-bound at the spine, then trimmed along the top, bottom and one side.
Fear Itself, maybe “section” is what they call a bundle of sheets that are folded and bound in the middle (gutter) in England, but in the US of A it’s a “signature.”