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Vampire, whole no. 7, September 1946
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WHY NOT A PROFESSIONAL FANZINE? by Lionel Inman Back five or six years ago during my early days as a fan, I planned to spend the first large sum of money I earned on a printing press and a linotype machine and publish a fanzine to beat them all. Money was no object to my young mind then. I fully expected to be bringing in astronomical sums from my professional writings by the time I was eighteen. I am twenty now and have yet to sell my first thing outside of a few news items to the local press. I have also had time to learn the approximate price for such equipment and to establish a revised set of values for life. Wild dreams have an annoying habit of petering out. Because I have revised my way of thinking does not mean, however, that I have entirely given up on the idea of the ultra fanzine. I do know definitely, though, that I could not support the magazine myself. (In fact, I make hardly enough to buy cigarettes.) But this does not mean that fandom could not support it. Thank of it: fandom pooling its resources, selling its mimeographs, and putting out a professional magazine all its own, to be operated as fandom wants it. And there is no reason it could not be a professional magazine. There are printers in fandom; even I know a little about typesetting. We could do the entire thing without any outside typesetters or printers. This would save a considerable amount of money. It would be needless to remark that the magazine would be a losing proposition for the first few issues, but with the whole-hearted support of fandom, it could survive until the circulation could be built up and advertisements received from the advertising agencies. Each member of fandom could try to increase the circulation by sending invitations to subscribe to names appearing in the professional stf and fantasy fiction magazines. Possibly there would be other ways to boost circulation. -26-
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WHY NOT A PROFESSIONAL FANZINE? by Lionel Inman Back five or six years ago during my early days as a fan, I planned to spend the first large sum of money I earned on a printing press and a linotype machine and publish a fanzine to beat them all. Money was no object to my young mind then. I fully expected to be bringing in astronomical sums from my professional writings by the time I was eighteen. I am twenty now and have yet to sell my first thing outside of a few news items to the local press. I have also had time to learn the approximate price for such equipment and to establish a revised set of values for life. Wild dreams have an annoying habit of petering out. Because I have revised my way of thinking does not mean, however, that I have entirely given up on the idea of the ultra fanzine. I do know definitely, though, that I could not support the magazine myself. (In fact, I make hardly enough to buy cigarettes.) But this does not mean that fandom could not support it. Thank of it: fandom pooling its resources, selling its mimeographs, and putting out a professional magazine all its own, to be operated as fandom wants it. And there is no reason it could not be a professional magazine. There are printers in fandom; even I know a little about typesetting. We could do the entire thing without any outside typesetters or printers. This would save a considerable amount of money. It would be needless to remark that the magazine would be a losing proposition for the first few issues, but with the whole-hearted support of fandom, it could survive until the circulation could be built up and advertisements received from the advertising agencies. Each member of fandom could try to increase the circulation by sending invitations to subscribe to names appearing in the professional stf and fantasy fiction magazines. Possibly there would be other ways to boost circulation. -26-
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