Counting Greenbacks for Thanksgiving

A random person, Sonya Ellen Mann, just posted an article on her 2015 earnings numbers over on The Digital Reader. If my addition is correct, she earned a whopping $118 on sales of five published books this year. Now that's inspirational!

Happily, however, SROP can beat that hands-down. The total SROP revenue year-to-date for 2015 is [drumroll...] zero dollars, on sales of five paperback books. In 2014 total revenue was $3.54, which was down 50% from 2013. And year-to-date sales of e-books, our "high margin" products, in 2015 is zero copies. Happily, SROP has given away more than zero, which is awesomely gratifying to our little rodential egos.

Apparently, it's a good thing we're not trying to break even selling goods.

Here's just one example of SROP's new motto, "we can't even give this crap away": To date, nobody but the Head Rodent and the cover artist has ever read Empress of the Night. And nobody took up the recent offer of a free copy of this $12 book*, or any other book in the catalog. (Except for the fabulously sophisticated miracle gentleperson who has obtained The Fantastical Tale of Gronthilda and the Bream Stock!) Similar tales can be told about many SROP titles.

Say... Pass me the walnut stuffing, will you, please? And the gravy boat... I'm a-gonna gobble up my sorrows... ;-)

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* Oh, when I say EOTN is a $12 book, I mean it's a 550-page book, so that's the cost of printing. Mailing it is another $5. And ya coulda had it for freeeeeezies... but you missed out...

** Wow. This has been posted for a week, and has only been viewed once. I guess I'll pull it down on Sunday before any more sous-rodents fling themselves from clifftops in distress...