Why Publish?
 In 1989, Mike Gunderloy,
the founder of Factsheet Five, compiled a 54-page booklet called
"Why Publish?". Mike had done a column in the magazine
in which he asked readers to submit responses to that question.
The booklet is a compilation of the responses. Since it's long
out-of-print and almost impossible to find, Mike graciously allowed
me to convert Why Publish? to an Adobe PDF ebook format for visitors
to download free of charge. The copy I scanned and converted
was provided by Chris Dodge of Street Librarian.
Why Publish? includes
an introduction by Jacob Rabinowitz, illustrations by Nancy McClernan
and contributions from Katrina Fixx of The Whole Shmeer, Jay
Harber of Notes from Oblivion, John F. Kelly of Get Smart (and
later XYY), Bob Conrad of This Zine Sucks (and later Second Guess),
Peter Mantis of Loafing the Donkey, Mary Fleener of Chicken Slacks,
David Greenberger of The Duplex Planet, James Moore of Wiggansnatch,
Stewart Brand of the beginnings of the Whole Earth Review, Gene
Mahoney of Good Clean Fun, Donna Kossy of False Positive (and
later Kooks, and later Book Happy), Erik Kosberg of Between the
Lines, Thomas Joseph Brown of the Journal of Borderland Research,
Elayne Wechsler of Inside Joke, Lisa Herskovits of Bikini Girl,
Ace Backwards of Twisted Image, Caryn Rose of Radio Free Europe
and many others. Please note that Mike (who co-authored a collection
of fanzine reviews called The World of Zines and still writes computer books)
no longer publishes F5, and that some addresses in the text are
not current. To view the PDF file, you'll first need to download
the free Adobe
Acrobat reader.
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