On 8/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's not be sneaky. That will create serious wrath forever. That's > not how we want to become known.
Yes, I am sure that if a bookstore employee found a card advertising UPHPU in one of their store's books, they would immediately be filled with a sense of righteous indignation over the issue. I have no doubt that they would immediately contact a prominent press outlet who would then break a national story about how UPHPU has hatched a diabolical scheme to infect local literature with our insidious, precious bodily fluid-polluting message. On the other hand, it's also possible that they might just go "Huh, that's odd." And move on with their day, because they've got a lot to do. To address your concern more seriously - if we were doing something "sneaky" then I would agree with you. But I really don't think that anyone is going to care. At all. We're not a for-profit organization, so we don't stand to make money by getting more members. Placing these cards will in no way harm the bookstore's business, customer service levels, or profits. > HOwever, setting up a book event, where a speaker discusses the latest > PHP books for sale. Showing the books and discussing them a bit. > Getting some kind of crowd. Inviting students, who are more likely > buyers. Just saying to B&N you want an event where we will bring > bodies to buy your books. That will have a chance to work. And if they > say no, jst casually mention we'll see if Borders is interested in a > crowd of PHP book buyers. We could do this as well. Also, I just had a thought - instead of slipping the cards inside the books, which could be considered "sneaky", we could try to get permission to place an advertisement of some sort on one of the endcaps. You know, in one of those... I don't know the words. It's a hard plastic thingie that you can put an 8.5x11 sheet of paper into and it sits on the end of a row of bookshelves. Or we could see if we could just put a stack of cards on top of one of the shelves in the computing area. But doing either of those would certainly require the permission of the management. _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
