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Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications

Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications. SHARP Conference, July 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota Jenna Freedman, Barnard College. outline. Different types of publications: vanity press, self-publications, zines

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Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications

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  1. Self-Publication with Punk Rock Ideals: Zines ≠ Vanity Press Publications SHARP Conference, July 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota Jenna Freedman, Barnard College

  2. outline • Different types of publications: vanity press, self-publications, zines • Punk rock ideals in zine publishing, contrasted with motivations for other self-publishing endeavors • Libraries' role in collecting and preserving these and other alternative press materials

  3. In 2004, 950,000 books out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen BookScan sold fewer than ninety-nine copies. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies. The average book in America sells about 500 copies. In other words, about 98% of books are noncommercial, whether they were intended that way or not. Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less instead of More (New York: Hyperion, 2006), 76. publishing industry statistics

  4. mental traps • Everyone wants to be a star • Everyone's in it for the money • If it isn't a hit, it's a miss • The only success is mass success • "Direct to video" = bad • "Self-published" = bad • "Independent" = "They couldn't get a deal" • Amateur = amateurish • Low-selling = low quality • If it were good, it would be popular Ibid., 167.

  5. comparison

  6. Bikini Kill, "Riot Grrrl Is…" Girl Power, no. 2. No date: unpaginated.

  7. Cindy Ovenrack, "Secrets," Doris no. 17, "Reprints." Winter 2000: unpaginated.

  8. April Hornbuckle, "[Intro]," Cartography for Beginners, no. 5. Summer, 2005: unpaginated.

  9. scope of barnard zine collection

  10. library bill of rights

  11. library zine collections

  12. links and contact • This slideshow and paper http://jenna.openflows.com/talks/sharp/2007 • Barnard Zine Collection http://barnard.edu/library/zines zines @ barnard dot edu • Zine libraries list http://www.barnard.edu/library/zines/links.htm#libraries • IM (AOL, Google, Jabber.org, Yahoo): BarnardLibJenna

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