The Zine Yearbook #9
by Microcosm Pub et al
The annual anthology of zine reprints now includes relevant articles about the year in zines - super fun zine fests, life changing experiences, amazing pen pal connections, and stories from people who hold zines dear to their hearts. It's a representative collection of not only reprints from zines published in 2007 but also a pulse of what 2007 was like for zines! Twice the size of previous zine yearbooks with mostly preserved original layouts!
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It looks gorgeous, guys. Thanks for including me.
Thank you for taking on this Herculean task! Thanks to your efforts, I've got back of the toilet reading through 2009!
WOAH!!! ME SO EXCITED FOR ZINE YEARBOOK #9!!!
I am glad to see that the Zine yearbook is still around!
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+ They acknowledged the potential weaknesses, e.g. zines' power weakened by their appearance in a book.
+ Transparency of operations (publishing costs/expected earnings breakdown).
+ I like that they credited the authors in opposite alphabetical order.
+ I appreciate their copyright statement, "All content owned by original authors and artists."
+ They seemed attentive to achieving gender, race, and class inclusiveness.
+ Nice flow from one zine to another, good groupings. They made it easier to read than many anthologies of diverse content.
+ You get the feeling that the editors really thought about what people's concerns would be ahead of time and tried to prevent them.
+ Good value for its price. Originally $12 and now listed at $10, that's a fair price for a 240 page book put out by a small small press.