By Slanted Light

Sorry - I hope you realise that I was talking about e-zines, rather than paper zines! I'll buy what paper zines I can (as long as I'm fairly confident in my own mind that they'll be worth their price) because I adore curling up with a good zine in bed, and I hate reading online!

But e-zines seem to me to be completely different to print zines. The only reason I can see to charge money for them, is to make a profit from them, which is something that fandom traditionally doesn't do. For me fandom is all about sharing what we enjoy and love, and I adore that part of it - so much nicer than the commercialised "real world"! Oh, actually another suggested reason for charging for e-zines is to subsidise the print zines, but that doesn't seem fair to me...

And of course it's all about people doing what they see fit - like anything else, if people don't like it, they won't support it, and hopefully it will vanish (although that's not always the case with things, unfortunately...) I just wondered what people thought of the new trend... *g* Oh, and I completely agree with you about Kate MacLean! *vbg*