In message 86d712l2gm.fsf@tezcatlipoca.algonet.se, Calle Dybedahl calle@lysator.liu.se writes
"Kathryn" == Kathryn Andersen kat_lists@katspace.com writes:
I'm very glad that Judith then offered to produce a printed version, so that people without net access could get a copy.
How do people without net access find and use Judith's zine-selling services? AFAIK her store is entirely web-based.
The same way I found it - which was *before* I got online. Or by a variety of other non-net means.
Judith operates a postal service, which is still not that uncommon amongst zine publishers. Send the old SAE/IRCs, and get a price list in return. She also goes to cons, which is where *I* found zines. And many people advertise new or second-hand zines in fan club zines, and pro sf and cult tv magazines, and other people's ficzines, and other paper-based means for fannish contact. It doesn't cover everyone, of course, but then neither does the net.
People, absorb this - not everyone in the western world has easy net access, even if it seems to you like everyone you know is online. This is called a self-selected sample... I made contact with fandom by the simple expedient of strolling down to my local newsagent and picking up a copy of Starburst to look at the con listings. I met Judith at either the second or third con I went to. (I met Gareth at the first, so I've actually known him longer than I have Judith:-) I found Horizon's address on the back of the videos. Other people have found Horizon in Ceefax's (BBC teletext) listing of fan clubs. Or written to the BBC. Or their local BBC-purchasing tv station. Once you've made that initial connection, you can make contact with other people.
And there are even people who don't have net access, but manage that magic half hour on a connection that lets them at least get a snailmail address to write to. There's at least one purchaser of Tales who found Judith that way, and then proceeded to write me a LOC using the postal address I gave in the zine.