250,000 scifi zines find a home at Univ. of Oregon

By Xeni Jardin at 6:51 am Monday, Dec 6

Following up on this earlier post about a guy who wanted to sell a lifetime collection of science fiction zines on eBay, former BB guestblogger Jason Scott says:

Hello, Jason Scott here (historian guy). I saw that the 250,000 fanzines up for sale on ebay were taken down. I took the step of looking up and contacting Mike, the guy who put them up, and spoke for a while.

Apparently he had gone to the ebay sale as a last resort after contacting a number of universities to donate his collection. And, as luck would have it, his auction was spotted by a worker at the University of Oregon, who have contacted him and offered to take the collection whole.

So, the collection has found a home, and a sale to the highest bidder (not always the greatest way to divest decades of collecting and collating) is no longer necessary. Great news.