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academic libraries, especially in the USA), or to buy the very expensive microform collections of such material already produced by some microform publishers. Librarians in some countries risk getting shot or their libraries bombed if the local versions of types of materials described in this book are found by the local Thought Police; and given the American orientation, and Chris Atton’s enthusiasm for fanzines (’zines’) they will have to make their own judgements about the utility of this book. It is possible that the book is published 25 years too late for UK and USA librarians because, firstly, and crudely, the generators of this sort of literature have now got themselves wired and are now into computer-mediated global communications; and secondly, as Dowmunt (1993) indicates, television may have become the major conduit for public knowledge, and the most important arena for hegemonic control and oppositional challenge.