Overview

This profile is under construction. It deals with the creation, promotion and management of web-based ezines and email-based newsletters. It includes pointers to the history and future of print-based zines.

     contents of this profile

The following pages cover -

design - comments on the design of ezines, including consideration of accessibility

promotion - pointers about marketing zines and long-term access, since online if you can't be found you don't exist

management - brief comments on questions about copyright, defamation and other management issues, along with studies of subscription mechanisms and advertising

offline - the history of print-based zines as a frame of refence for considering and creating ezines

There's a separate profile on web logs, a genre that for many authors has replaced the zine.

     orientation

While we're building the profile two interesting resources are

Frederick Wright's dissertation on English From Zines To Ezines: Electronic Publishing & The Literary Underground - a 382 page study on counterculters

the voluptuous eye-candy in Newsletters Now: From Classic to New Wave (New York: St Martins 97) by Steven Heller & Elinor Pettit - an aspirational document rather than a practical guide

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