Skateboarding magazines, books and fanzines from all over the world now available on Issuu

A worldwide library of skateboarding publications is available on Issuu.

Imagine a library where you can find a February 1977 copy of SkateBoarder, or the latest issue of French magazine Soma, or the first edition of UK’s Skateboard!, or Bulgaria’s Skatebgzine, or Sweden’s Bailgun, or books like “The Legacy of Warren Bolster” or “Mute”…

That place exists!

And it is easily within your reach – it is called Issuu, a digital publishing platform where you can find, read and download magazines, books, catalogs and documents published all over the planet and about all kinds of topics.

The popular online destination, awarded by Time.com as one of the 50 best websites of 2009, receives over 6 million visitors every month and has an archive of 20 million pages.

But the subject here is skateboarding and, with that in mind, you better start off by checking the Skateboarding group on Issuu.

The Skateboarding group on Issuu has an extensive variety of titles.

Membership is free, and the group is open to anyone. Once you join, you can add publications from the Issuu archives, or upload your own document (PDF, DOC or PPT) and add it to the group’s library. So far, it has over 50 publications – the ones mentioned above and much more.

• Check the slideshow below, featuring assorted covers of skateboarding publications from all over the world.

From fanzines like Cruel Mistress, Grita and HATEonTHIS to magazines such as Concrete Wave, Concussion and Color to books like Why Skate?, you can travel from Chile to Singapore on a virtual literary skateboarding journey.

Check the example below: SkateZine #1, published in 1986 by yours truly.

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