Zines for Amoeba Petition

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We inquired with Mary Patton by email, who was very nice but said she had nothing to do with the decision not to carry zines, and that she didn't think management would go for it.

We then sent a package of our magazines with a letter to Marc Weinstein and phoned him many times over several weeks, at every Amoeba store, but was never able to reach him; he apparently has no voice mail.

We followed up with a phone message for Karen Pearson, which was not returned. Only then did we post the open letter. If there's anyone else we should be talking to, I would appreciate the info.

thanks,
Kim
amscray@gmail.com

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Monday, 10 April 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The main problem you're going to come across is that there's no reason to stock zines in the Berkeley or San Francisco stores. City Lights and Stacey's in SF and Cody's in Berkeley are great for zines, so zines are generally speaking a losing proposition for those stores. The Berkeley store especially doesn't have any room for a zine rack, and my impression as a cashier there was that even if we put a zine front in center (Cometbus, for instance), no one would ever buy it.

Los Angeles is a different proposition. Tons of space, and if you're right, no competitors. Those guys aren't going to stock anything that won't make money. So you might want to try sending a letter to Karen at the LA store and asking about having more zines for that particular store. Otherwise, I think you're barking up the wrong tree.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 10 April 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Just one week after the editors of The Big Takeover, Dumb Angel Gazette, Roctober, Scram and Ugly Things posted an open letter to Amoeba Music seeking to get the store to carry indie zines, and after more than 350 kind folks took the time to sign the attached petition (link below) pledging their support, we were contacted by the management of Amoeba's L.A. store with a gracious email offering to work with us to make a select group of high quality indie music magazines available to their customers. Interested publishers can contact me for more information.

The specifics of the zine section are yet to be determined, and it's not clear which stores beyond LA will be effected, but for now I just wanted to spread the good word. It's great to know that sometimes all it takes to get a timely idea adopted is finding the right way to ask. Thanks again to everyone who took the time to sign the petition or forward it, and stay tuned for Zines at Amoeba!

Kim
Editrix
Scram
http://www.scrammagazine.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/amoeba/petition.html

― Kim Cooper (editrix), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

what
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joke

― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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― lf (lfam), Friday, 14 April 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i prefer sf amoeba sans zines. petition?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 14 April 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Hollywood Amoeba moving locations, adding pot sales: https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/amoeba-music-set-to-relocate-its-los-angeles-store-plans-to-seek-dispensary-permit-exclusive-1202848131/

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 16 June 2018 17:41 (five years ago) link

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