Jul 2, 2021
This Week In Fandom History → July 1976
"Commercialism in Strekdom,” an essay about fandom and the sales of fanworks, is released in Star Trek zine “Spectrum” #26. This is one of the earliest arguments by a fan that fanworks must necessarily remain free from profit to protect the nature of fandom as something other than an extension of corporate marketing. Written by M.J. Fisher, the zined of Spectrum.