Zine Piracy Letter by Ann Wortham in Response to Candace Pulleine

Zine Piracy Letter by Ann Wortham in Response to Candace Pulleine was sent in 1993.
The subject was zine piracy.
==Some Background Information==
Making copies of zines that were still in print could be financially damaging to many zine editors and publishers. It was an issue that was first publicly discussed in media fandom in the eleventh issue of Probe in August 1977. The editor, Winston A. Howlett, wrote: 
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were strong feelings in fandom about some fans who were making copies of zines still in print and were, from one point of view, "stealing" from zine publishers by copying in-print zines. There were also strong feelings about zine editors who kept zines in print forever, thus continuing to make sales while the story authors never received any additional compensation. This coincided with growing resentment among other groups of fans regarding rising zine prices, often for zines which they felt were not worth the higher prices.
Many of these tensions came to a head at, and after, RevelCon 1993.
==A Series of Open Letters: by Zine Publishers/Con Organizers==
In 1993 and 1994, a number of Open Letters circulated in fandom regarding the photocopying of in-print zines.
See: The Revelcon Zine Piracy Letters.
==A Public Letter in the Series==
Zine Piracy Letter by Ann Wortham in Response to Candace Pulleine was printed in Southern Enclave #37 in autumn 1993. It was also reprinted (with an added introduction) in Tarriel Cell in April 1994. The text of the Tarriel Cell letter can be seen under the section called "Communiques" at .
In her letter, Ann made a few points in response to Candace’s letter. It is unclear if this letter was Candace Pulleine’s Open Letter To All Revelcon Members in May 1993 or the Open Letter to Fanzine Readers, Contributors, and Publishers by Candace Pulleine in June 1993.
Ann’s letter in the fall of 1993, "Zine Piracy Letter by Ann Wortham in Response to Candace Pulleine," was an attempted to correct what she saw as miscommunications, misunderstandings and misdirection while also offering up a few of her own opinions.
File:tarrielcellletter-1.jpg|first page of the letter printed in Tarriel Cell
File:tarrielcellletter-2.jpg|second page of the letter printed in Tarriel Cell
File:Tarrielcellletter-3.jpg|third page of the letter printed in Tarriel Cell
==The Letter==
In her first paragraph, Ann pointed out that she had not granted permission for her Southern Lights #6 editorial to be reprinted in full:
One point to keep in mind: Southern Lights #5 had a bit of a complicated publishing schedule: 
Anne then went on to write that she had been assured by Bill Hupe and other attendees that piracy had taken place at RevelCon and that the sales of her new zine Southern Lights #5 were impacted. The proof was that issue #5 sold poorly at RevelCon:
Ann wrote that she herself had not spoken directly to Candace, but when her co-editor Leah Rosenthal phoned Candace to inform her of these facts, Leah felt their allegations were not taken seriously:
In a later section Ann wrote:
Ann's letter suggests that the debate’s focus on the sales of Southern Lights #5 was a misdirection from the larger issue of piracy: 
Ann's letter then outlines several other negative responses she had responded from Revelcon supporters and concluded that Revelcon attendees were working to drive zine publishers out of business:
==Fan Reactions to This Letter==
==References==
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