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Once upon a time your parents, your teachers, and/or your bosses told
you to stop daydreaming. "There's no money to be earned in
daydreaming," they said. Project Pulp's here to prove them
wrong.
Meet Indie. One Indie is a good time but fifty Indies is a party. Fall 2002 brought a giveaway program to Project Pulp where you received entries for simply ordering from the website, then also for every $10 you ordered, for ordering certain titles, etc. This giveaway program will remain on a monthly basis but will no longer be Project Pulp's primary system. Welcome to the new Project Pulp. Indie's coming with us.
For example, if it took you ten orders of $25 each to reach 50 Indie Points, after that tenth order I would pay you back a gift certificate for $12.50, 5% of those ten $25 orders. Gift certificates can be used for anything available on the website, from magazines, to books, to CDs, to downloadable e-books, or toward buying an even larger gift certificate for a family member or friend. They also never expire and are provided via e-mail as a secret code so you never lose it (you can always e-mail me to have me send you the code again if you do lose it). Why? Why would we pay you back for buying books from Project Pulp? Why would we be so ridiculous as to give you back money we could just as easily keep for ourselves? Because the small press, also known as the independent press, relies on you. But even more so than that, because we honestly believe the small/independent press is the home to the best there is in literature, poetry, non-fiction, and art. Not the major publishing houses found in your chain bookstores, but right here, from the writers, editors, publishers, and artists who don't make a living from it -- just daydream. | ||||||||
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The old giveaway points system will remain
with some new additions, all of which are in detail below. And the
points have a new name. Out with the old, generic "entries," in with
Indie Points, courtesy of our new friend (seen here on the left).
Every fifty Indie Points you earn pays you back a gift certificate to
the Project Pulp website for 5% of your total purchases.
