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Happily Jiving to the Free Sample Blooz
Sometimes the furry-faced folks hereabouts think maybe Smashed-Rat-on-Press ought to host some of its own free samples and previews. Make some wild hoopla. Like, put free samples on the SROP site and have pointers and big blinking signs and all that.
Because SROP doesn't deal with the "big box" stores, but only sells directly through small, locally-sourced, organic Ma-and-Pa boutique vending solutions, there isn't any true consumer-oriented place to guzzle loads of free samples and binge on previews for SROP books. (Lulu.com doesn't count in this regard, but the Lulu.com SROP pages have always included decent samples of the print editions for every SROP title. I don't think anyone goes there to look, even though the bibliographic entries here on GR point to the print-edition pages as the "official" URL for the titles.)
At other times the rodents here think it's not worth the bother to make or offer samples. If SROP isn't dealing with the "big box" stores, nobody out in the world knows about the books anyway. Hence, they not only don't know about the existence of the books, they don't know they could just ask the Head Rodent for the entire book. For free! [insert blinking icon here] So, making special previews is total a waste of time.
That's the idea anyway. We could all be wrong-thinking rodents. And there could be a small roving herd of unicorns in your backyard.
Because SROP doesn't deal with the "big box" stores, but only sells directly through small, locally-sourced, organic Ma-and-Pa boutique vending solutions, there isn't any true consumer-oriented place to guzzle loads of free samples and binge on previews for SROP books. (Lulu.com doesn't count in this regard, but the Lulu.com SROP pages have always included decent samples of the print editions for every SROP title. I don't think anyone goes there to look, even though the bibliographic entries here on GR point to the print-edition pages as the "official" URL for the titles.)
At other times the rodents here think it's not worth the bother to make or offer samples. If SROP isn't dealing with the "big box" stores, nobody out in the world knows about the books anyway. Hence, they not only don't know about the existence of the books, they don't know they could just ask the Head Rodent for the entire book. For free! [insert blinking icon here] So, making special previews is total a waste of time.
That's the idea anyway. We could all be wrong-thinking rodents. And there could be a small roving herd of unicorns in your backyard.
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