Posted by Phil-3 on
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At 08:26 PM 11/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>I have to agree with other members who feel that the script book alone is
>not of great interest to me. I think it is something I would just browse
>and file away on a shelf and some of the scripts are already available
>online. I agree with Shawn (and others group members) that new novels/fan
>fiction would be more interesting. I would also purchase music CDs.

I'm slightly confused here. The last several posts are calling for more
fan fiction or more licensed novels? Fan fiction is inexpensive to produce
and pretty easy to find for free on the internet. If you want to hold a
"real" book buying a fanzine is also a bit cheaper than buying from
Fanderson because you don't need a membership to buy a fanzine.

I think Fanderson produced one (?) or maybe a couple of fan fiction
collections years ago. I became a member around the time of the Space 1999
soundtrack so it was before my time as a member.

Or is it a call to produce more officially licensed novels in the spirit of
the old UFO and Space 1999 novels of the 1970's?

In my mind there is a big difference between Fan Fiction and officially
licensed novels. I'm not speaking about the quality of the writing here,
just the difference in the production of the works and the idea that one
editor can oversee an entire line of books thus creating an "epic" series
of novels that compliment each other while a fan fiction writer is off on
their own and being their own editor. So each work of Fan Fiction has to
stand on it's own, so to speak.

I was just getting confused in the thread as to which type of work people
were interested in. The individual fan fiction, produced by various
writers or a line of books with one editor overseeing the line of books
(And the continuity and the interpretation of the original source material)

>Another comment regarding the ability to order over the internet was also
>relevant. I am far more likely to go to a site and purchase an item off of
>an internet site than I am to mail in a form.

Most items I buy (I've mostly been buying DVD's lately) I buy off the
internet. The major roadblock with Fanderson used to be the method in
getting US funds over to England. Now that they can accept credit cards by
mail it really isn't that much of a hassle at all. I believe all the
orders are processed by one person, maybe two or three??? Can that few
people handle an influx of orders over the internet on web page (And update
and maintain that page?) Also, when I order something off the net, I'm
used to getting it fast, in a couple of days, like deepdiscountdvd.com or
amazon.com and all the rest (HLJ is an exception but they did fill the
pre-orders fast when the product became available!) Could Fanderson
provide that type of speedy service? I think everyone in Fanderson is a
volunteer and everyone has their own "regular" jobs and at some point a
life too.

So from that POV it's probably easier for fanderson to process these mail
in orders. It's still a fan club...a fan club that produces some amazing
products but still a fan club.

> In addition, if I wasn't a member and wanted to purchase an item it
> would be nice if I could purchase it (perhaps at a higher cost to
> encourage membership) regardless of my member status. Members could be
> rewarded with lower prices or the ability to order as many of the item as
> they wanted.

This is an idea that might be helpful to Fanderson. I'm not sure if they
would consider it, depending on the circumstances that they are allowed to
produce material but still, if they were allowed to they could charge extra
to non members for books or soundtracks and funnel the extra money into a
NEW soundtrack or book! : - )