Zine may refer to any of the following:

  1. Alternatively called an ezine, e-zine, and webzine, a zine is short for magazine. Zine describes an electronic version of a magazine. An example of an early ezine is the “CULT OF THE DEAD COW” from the cDc group.

A good example of someone doing computer-related zines today is Julia Evans, who does the excellent wizard zines.

  1. When referring to a non-electronic version, a zine is a custom-made magazine, book, or another paper document.

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