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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
• 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
publishing industry statistics
• 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.
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.
comparison
Vanity press Self-publications Zines
Scorned Tolerated Invisible
Owned by publisher Owned by author Owned by author, if ownership is claimed at all
Publisher does most of the work
Publisher does much of the work
Author does nearly all of the work
Author has minimal control over design or anything other than content
Author has more control
Author has total control
Publishing costs shouldered or shared by author
Publishing costs shouldered or shared by author
Author solely responsible for publishing costs
Bikini Kill, "Riot Grrrl Is…" Girl Power, no. 2. No date: unpaginated.
Cindy Ovenrack, "Secrets," Doris no. 17, "Reprints." Winter 2000: unpaginated.
April Hornbuckle, "[Intro]," Cartography for Beginners, no. 5. Summer, 2005: unpaginated.
scope of barnard zine collection
library bill of rights
library zine collections
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