Yeah, I tend to agree the paper fanzine is on its way out. I saw the signs years ago when we closed down PawPrints - art archives and websites were just making 'zines obsolete as the way the furry community stays in touch.
There's just way higher latency on a paper fanzine when you could be sending someone a message nearly instantly. Blogs like LJ let you share your life story with others with far less effort and more interactivity than the letters in the APAs, and if you want your stories published but you don't care about the money, as is often the case with fanzine authors, then you can just as easily post it somewhere and stick up notices in the blogs to get picked up.
That a bad thing? IMHO not really, fanzines are on the way out 'cause they're being replaced by superior things, and there's not much that's really unique to fanzines that would be lost in the conversion to websites, or at least I can't think of anything drastically important.
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Date: 2006-01-24 22:33 (UTC)There's just way higher latency on a paper fanzine when you could be sending someone a message nearly instantly. Blogs like LJ let you share your life story with others with far less effort and more interactivity than the letters in the APAs, and if you want your stories published but you don't care about the money, as is often the case with fanzine authors, then you can just as easily post it somewhere and stick up notices in the blogs to get picked up.
That a bad thing? IMHO not really, fanzines are on the way out 'cause they're being replaced by superior things, and there's not much that's really unique to fanzines that would be lost in the conversion to websites, or at least I can't think of anything drastically important.