Zineing
Zines are DIY publishing: one-time or periodically published booklets smaller in scope than books or magazines.
Making Zines
You can produce zines by printing and/or photocopying 8.5x11 horizontal pages double-sided with two vertical pages on each and bending them in the center, then stapling the pages together.
Color Covers
Printing a cover and even some pages in color can make the zine much more attractive, impactful and memorable to readers.
Mailing Zines
You can use Media Mail to send things like books, zines and CDs for a cheap $1.40 flat rate.
Distributing Zines
Zines are often distributed through secondary circuits, such as: trade, zine symposia, record stores, concerts, independent media outlets, mailings, or zine "distros." Many zines are distributed for free or cost less than $1.00 and rarely more than $5.00. Webzines are to be found in many places on the Internet. See more examples of zine distros
Web-Enabled Zines
You can produce zines as print versions of web-based content to simultaneously reach people by web and print. Many zines have gone online, such as Boing Boing.
How People Got Into Zineing
"We ended up going back and forth, both of us talking about how we got into zines. We realized we both started publishing *before* knowing what a zine was. I started publishing independently when I was 16 (I'm 23 now), but until last summer I didn't know anyone else was doing it on the level that I'm now aware of. I started my first (what I called "underground literary magazine" for lack of a smaller, often mispronouned, alternative) when a few of my pieces were rejected from my high school's lit mag due to "content." I published four issues of that on my mom's photocopier at work, plus countless chapbooks and pamphlets of poetry and short stories that I just gave to my classmates and teachers.Then I met Aaron Cynic last summer (we ended up working in the same office) and he broke the news to me that I didn't invent the format."
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Zineing
lxpk’s personal skill (something lxpk has learned or wants to learn) posted by lxpk Sat, 2008-04-05 13:49I'm in the process of gathering the manifesto and select ideas, skills and tools for the first Empower Thyself Manifesto Zine. The Infoshop has a whole rack of zines and I look forward to adding ours to it. I've self-published before but this will be my first zine.