THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A VOLUME AND AN ISSUE?

According to Webster's online dictionary, a volume is "a series of printed sheets bound typically in book form;" it is also "a series of issues of a periodical". Issue on the other hand is "the act of publishing or officially giving out or making available" when it behaves like a noun and seems to have no affiliation to it's meaning with magazines and publishing.

However, a look at a page from California State University Libraries, delineates a more precise definition of the word volume. According to this source (http://lib.colostate.edu/howto/gloss.html), a volume is, "physically, a gathering of pages bound together in the form of a book". In this sense, it is identical to the dictionary definition. In addition, though, "Numerically, a volume is a full set of issues (numbers) which comprises a SERIAL volume bound together." And here is where we get to the meat and potatoes of the difference between volume and issue; from this definition, it seems that issues comprise a volume when you are talking about a serial publication (magazine, journal, etc.)

NEW BANNERS FOR HINCHAS #3

J. David Gonzalez and I co-edit the online journal, Hinchas de Poesia, http://www.hinchasdepoesia.com. We are working on the the third issue and are at the point where we are trying out different stuff and "perusing" it on the web.

Well, J. David, what thinkest ye? Also, you read J. David's newest non-fiction piece in the Southern Indiana Review, click here. The piece is called, How Can I Help You? and is about the burning down of the restaurant J. David's family has owned for the past 20 years on Billy Bagg's State Park in Key Biscayne.