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...but by "monetizing" I didn't refer to getting rich out of selling anarchist books. Of course there ain't a lot of money to be made with this. It's a professional monetizing I'm talking of. Like as referential and literary support base to justify academic careers (ergo good paychecks and more comfy positions in colleges and universities. The academic peer networks will usually only recognize legally-published stuff with an ISBN or at least some official, known publishing houses. Clandestine zines got little value in the milieu of university chairs.

Bookfairs work in making this tangential connection between the clandestine and academic, most often to the benefit of the latter, so to recuperate ideas, views and aesthetics that previously emanated from the "streets".