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> I received 2 of the postcard tear-sheets from hardcopy F5 on
> Wednesday of last week.  A few days later, I read here that
> F5 has already gone to press.  What the heck is the purpose
> of sending these things out if F5 doesn't give us enough
> leadtime to inform them of corrections that need to be made?

I don't know if Jerod's answered your posting yet (it's probably
better to mail him than to post if you have specific Factsheet 5
questions).  I just edit the queer zine section, and I haven't been
as involved with production as Seth and Jerod.  So I'm not really
speaking from a position of authority.

The reasoning behind the postcards was that for financial reasons, it's 
impossible to send out trade copies of Factsheet 5.  When Hudson Luce 
published issue 45, not only didn't he send out trade copies, nobody who 
was reviewed in it was notified that the issue had come out.  And there
was virtually no distribution of the zine.  The idea with doing
tear sheets was that people could see their reviews and know the
zine was out.  I guess we didn't think that there might actually
be typos! :-)

It might be a good idea to print up the postcards and send them out
a couple weeks before printing.  That means that the reviews will be 
a couple weeks older before they get to the readers, but they'll also 
be more accurate.  It also means yet more work (entering in corrections)
for the already overworked editors.

Jerod did say in his posting that there will be an errata column
next time.  And hopefully the kinks will get worked out in future 
issues.

Larry-bob
lroberts@bellahs.com