. I wonder if people who don't have a zine background (like me) regard zines as somewhat "exclusive" or "elite". If you're already paying for an internet connection anyway, fanfic online is "free". Zines could be ignored if you'd have to scrape up extra money to buy them and then, when you're talking about specific stories, it's easy to forget that they were once in a zine.
But I don't know why an author or reccer wouldn't mention it when talking about a story. I have seen headers that said, "Originally published in XX Zine" -- but if it doesn't say that, I wouldn't know the history. Or maybe because the numbers of fans who read zines are small compared to the total numbers of fans -- and growing smaller as new fans discover fandom -- and it seems like it "doesn't matter"?
Or maybe it's a case of "out of sight, out of mind". I suspect there isn't a definitive answer. .
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Date: 2014-02-23 08:48 pm (UTC)I wonder if people who don't have a zine background (like me) regard zines as somewhat "exclusive" or "elite". If you're already paying for an internet connection anyway, fanfic online is "free". Zines could be ignored if you'd have to scrape up extra money to buy them and then, when you're talking about specific stories, it's easy to forget that they were once in a zine.
But I don't know why an author or reccer wouldn't mention it when talking about a story. I have seen headers that said, "Originally published in XX Zine" -- but if it doesn't say that, I wouldn't know the history. Or maybe because the numbers of fans who read zines are small compared to the total numbers of fans -- and growing smaller as new fans discover fandom -- and it seems like it "doesn't matter"?
Or maybe it's a case of "out of sight, out of mind". I suspect there isn't a definitive answer.
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