>Just like there are small farming collectives out there, I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsletter!). PDF versions available for long-distance readers.

You seem to be describing what I've known (since forever) by "Zine"[¹]

[¹]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine

Yeah that's what I was thinking of. Are there semi-professional zine publications out there? I checked out Etsy but the stuff there was not really to my taste.

Do you have any decent local bookstores nearby? You might be surprised at the variety of magazines they have once you skim past the usual options. I've seen all sorts of niche publications, including zines. Most are not for me, but that isn't a problem since there is usually something that catches my eye.

You might find something that grabs you from the list of exhibitors here: https://www.seattleartbookfair.org/Exhibitors Or look for similar events and check out who attends.

I like reading about food, so places like Omnivore books have specialty books or magazines that are not just recipe books. Though I do like cookbooks. https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/

I've had the opposite experience. I'm amazed at the types of print magazines on niche topics that still exist. Are you aware of https://www.stackmagazines.com/ ?

I've been looking for something like this for a while, thanks a lot for sharing! It just sucked when I was checking out a few mags and after calculating the cost for shipping to Sweden it was higher than the total cost of 4-6 magazines...

I am also into micro-zines (and larger). There's a great community around Sword and Sorcery style short stories, with a handful of high quality quarterly and monthly publications, with strong authors in the genre.

Are you ruling our hardcover books that still get written and published? I'm on email mailing lists of two small/Independent publishers, and they still make books.

And where I live, there's a book binders workshop on my street.

> I'd love for there to be micro-magazines and short stories on paper, made cheaply and distributed to small mailing lists with a single stamp (not an email newsletter!). PDF versions available for long-distance readers.

what do you like to read? i might have some suggestions

I'm open to different topics. Short stories, music, business, art.

little engines has stories and it's free: https://www.littleengines.pub/

i also like forever magazine, the writing is better than little engines: https://forevermag.net/

There's 100s of literary magazines (litmags) that publish in print and/or online. They tend to focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. But you'll also get commentary, news, art, comics, works in translation, litmags that focus on certain genres etc. etc. Below is wikipedia's list. "One Story" is a good example of micro in the mail, literally one fiction story sent in small print format once a month. Also below is one writer's take on which are "the best" litmags, including what they could find about each's circulation numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_magazines http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-o...