“In 1988, it was estimated that there were 300 publications that enabled fans to explore aspects of television series, 120 of them centered on Star Trek, a number that no doubt underestimates the production of fan literature because it doesn’t include literature circulated only in photocopy circuits or the more covertly circulated publications"
- Rosemary Coombe, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law, 1998, p. 107
Hahaha. There were more than 300 fanzines by 1988. On Fanlore, we have over 8,000 fanzine pages spanning 1968-today. By 2006, fanzine production slowed to a trickle. It would be wonderful to see someone pull together stats based on what we have on Fanlore, arranged by year and by fandom.