But why wouldn't you include editorial content (*iz puzzled*). This might be my inner journalism student, but I find it really hard to imagine that.
Well, I guess, people just wanted the fanfiction and nothing else, especially since they were expensive. I sure didn't want anything else.
As for the price, I never published a fanzine myself, but I know that European publishers were usually cheaper than American publishers, even when you consider the overseas postage. And I know that some of the larger publishers had their own copy machine and binding machines, so that would have been cheaper than going to the printers. Even then the prices were very high. 30 $ and more (just the zine without the postage) and then I bought zines at German publishers for maybe 20 DM.
I don't really know how things are nowadays, since I haven't bought zines in a long time. The last fanzines I bought were the SGA zines "Surfacing I & II," which cost me about 80 $ including the shipping. I'd consider that expensive.
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Well, I guess, people just wanted the fanfiction and nothing else, especially since they were expensive. I sure didn't want anything else.
As for the price, I never published a fanzine myself, but I know that European publishers were usually cheaper than American publishers, even when you consider the overseas postage. And I know that some of the larger publishers had their own copy machine and binding machines, so that would have been cheaper than going to the printers. Even then the prices were very high. 30 $ and more (just the zine without the postage) and then I bought zines at German publishers for maybe 20 DM.
I don't really know how things are nowadays, since I haven't bought zines in a long time. The last fanzines I bought were the SGA zines "Surfacing I & II," which cost me about 80 $ including the shipping. I'd consider that expensive.