Pre-Emptive De-Cluttering of the World

Speaking of de-cluttering and book purging, both hot topics in recent months... The SROP method begins with self-conscious pre-emptive decluttering. Briefly: we just don't print very many books in the first place, and we make them hard to obtain, so only people who are really aching to have SROP books on their shelves manage to get hold of them.

In this way we lower our carbon footprint as a "publisher", and hope to avoid the books becoming someone else's clutter in the future! Many SROP books exist in less than one handful of physical copies. Often, the number is two: one printed for the cover designer and one for the author. By avoiding sales, we contribute less to the cluttering of the world that results from too many copies of books lying around.

And if we discover (to our horror) any typos that require re-printing a book, we most often recycle excess copies... Except sometimes. So I'll take this opportunity to remind people: in only 12 more days the excess imperfect copies mentioned in a previous blog posting by Mantissa Etherbright, will be sent to either the shredder... Or possibly the incinerator... Viva la pyre? Or viva la compost heap?

Update February 17, 2019: No takers? Oh, well... Now they have all been shredded and recycled...