>No, although this may change in the future, as with the winding up of
>Tales, the Reaching Moon Megacorp may no longer be importing fanzines.
>However my local shop has stocked Tradetalk/RQA/YBoT/BoDR in addition
>to Tales for some time. To the best of my knowledge these are
>ordered through Esvedium (one of the main UK distributors) so should
>be available to any UK games shop (While in print at any rate!)
Lucky you. My local game store staff wouldn't know a Gloranthan zine if it bit them. Not that a UK distributor would do them much good.... I can get them to order from Wizard's Attic, but it's quicker and nearly as cheap for me to order the stuff myself.
>True, I just don't think downloads of material offer much flexibility
>or lack of hassle (I need to be at my PC to read them, or print them
>off on piles of loose paper.
I print off anything I need or want to refer to frequently anyway. Reading on screen for long periods is not my idea of a good time.
>Making small credit
>card payments in a foreign currency is a very expensive way of buying
>anything...
Less so than making small foreign currency money orders. Anyway, this is more a question of point of origin than method of access. It's certainly no more expensive to order a foreign produced zine and pay shipping on top of the cover price than it is to pay for a download in foreign currency. Someone else suggested a subscription service, but that (it seems to me) would just take up more of Issaries time. I'm not sure there's a good answer to this....
Peter Larsen
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