The word "headline" is only used with newspapers. As you say, it is the title of the story. It is often written in very large type. A "title" is the name of a complete work. In the case of a book, the title is usually written on the spine of the book. It also appears on the "title page" of the book in big letters. It often appears at the top of every left-hand page n the book as well. If you want to buy the book or get it at a library, you refer to it by its title. A "heading" is not really the name of anything complete. A "heading" is used to help organize parts of a complete work. It is a line in bigger type that introduces and summarizes a section of something longer. A headline is a kind of title. In my opinion, a heading is not a title.

Title: The name given to something. Example, "The title of this book series is Harry Potter." Header: Text at the top of a page in a document or hard copy. For example, in Microsoft Word, a header can be created in a document to display the page number in the top corner of each page. Headline: The title at the top of a newspaper article or a page in a book. An example of a headline is the title of the day's most important news story. Good question!

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That's an interesting question. I would, generally speaking, refer to the names of books, journal articles and magazines as their titles, not headings. 'Heading' I'd probably use to describe the names of chapters in a book or, more usually, sub-headings (being the shorter names of subsections found in texts.) Headlines are what titles of news articles are called. So the differences between them? Headings and headlines are all titles, but not all titles are headings or headlines. I think. Hopefully that makes some amount of sense.