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Tomorrow there is going to be a zine fair at the Museum of Contemporary Art. I am having a stall selling lip so be sure to pop in if you’re in the area.
It is a FREE event and goes from 11am to 6pm.
There are set to be around 60 stalls.
You can sell, trade, browse zines, listen to live music and panel discussions.

The art gallery’s website is www.mca.com.au if you want to check that out.

I encourage everyone to come as it will be interesting and fun. Also the gallery space is just a really nice one. Maybe I’ll see you there?

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The ACT Writers’ Centre will be running the first Canberra zine fair in goodness knows how long on the morning of Saturday 21 June at Gorman House, as part of the Canberra Writers’ Festival.

Please email me or contact The Writers Centre - admin@actwriters.org.au / (02) 6262 9191 - ASAP to book a table!

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In preparation for the launch of issue 15 next month, we’re having a clearance sale of all back issues. Check out our bumper pack offer: Get one copy of each available back issue of lip - that’s 9 mags - for only $25.00 (price includes postage within Australia). Only a limited number of packs available, so get in quick!

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Sticky is a very cool (and probably the only of its kind!) zine store based in Melbourne, and one of the few places that stocks lip.

Even if you’re not in Melbourne you can help support Sticky, and score lots of zines in the process by becoming a Sticky member. There are a number of membership packages ranging between $5-425:

get cool emails on zines for 12 months.

you get: monthly sparodic emails from Sticky Institute; A one-off pack of $25 worth of zines

you get: monthly sparodic emails from Sticky Institute; 2 x $250 zine packs (one pack received on signing up, the second pack received after 6 months)

Support Sticky and sign up here.

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I read Seth’s blog almost every day, and today he makes an interesting point about why businesses produce what they do and why they want us to buy their products. He uses film in his example, but I think this is also extremely relevant to magazines.

The first reason is “me-centric” and explains that (commercial/mainstream) magazines publish because they need a space in which to sell advertising. They fill their pages with celebrities and say “buy me because [insert celebrity name here] is on the cover”.

The second is “you-centric”. Independent and alternative magazines focus on the needs and desires of the reader. They fill their pages with useful and interesting viewpoints, experiences and talent, and say “buy me because there is a lot of cool stuff in here we want to share with you”.

This is why lip is going to stay ad-free - we want to bring you the best content we can, and not have this dictated or censored by advertisers. We have explored including advertising in order to keep lip in print, and to have it available to as many people as possible, but making money is not why we publish lip and we have decided that printing ads is not an option.

We will have more news about the next issue of lip soon: we’re making some exciting changes, but rest assured, we’re not going away.

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