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                LAST-MINUTE NOTES ABOUT SOFTWARE SHOPPER

   Software Shopper is the first online shareware magazine/catalog we 
know of that is updated monthly. Software Shopper is also an ASP-approved 
shareware vendor; we've been reviewing and offering shareware for several 
years. Our "inventory" contains thousands of programs. We certainly can't 
fit all of them into the "offline" version of Software Shopper (which is 
published as 32 pages bundled inside the magazine PCM), but we can 
certainly pack in quite a lot of them in this online version!

   While Software Shopper Online offers descriptions on more than 1000 
shareware programs -- and is one of the most comprehensive shareware 
catalogs you can find -- it's still a work in progress. We're converting 
our database record by record. So, if your favorite shareware titles are 
missing from this month's catalog -- have patience, they'll probably be 
added soon.

   Also, this month's online catalog went to "print," so to speak, before 
we could post a notice in the Software Shopper section about the 
"Author's Fee" fields. We do not have registration fee information for 
all titles, so for those fields that show a fee of "0.00," please do not 
assume that registration is free!


An Invitation to Shareware Authors

   Shareware authors: we invite you to monitor our catalog to help keep 
us up to date with your titles. Although we receive the ASP Advantage CD-
ROM and get disks sent to us by shareware authors, we don't get 
everything we'd like -- so we turn to BBSs and online services for files 
we're missing (and of course read the vendor info to make sure we're 
allowed to distribute the programs we download). We'd rather that the 
programs came directly from you -- and we're sure you'd rather that too. 
Feel free to send us your updates and new titles. Our mailing address is: 
Software Shopper, P.O. Box 385, Prospect, KY 40059. Our shipping address 
is: Software Shopper, The Falsoft Building, 9509 U.S. Highway 42, 
Prospect, KY 40059.

   We've got to tell you about our new high-density line. Most shareware 
vendors are still putting out titles on low-density floppy disks only, 
but we're proud to have launched our "HD" line: which means we can 
competitively distribute titles like DOOM, Raptor, GeoPublish and NeoBook 
Pro on high-density disks (complete with nifty, laser-printed labels). 
So, large programs don't upset us! We do request that, when you send us 
large programs, you break them into chunks that would also fit on 1.2MB 
floppy disks. But if you can't, that's OK -- we'll just insert a note 
asking readers to order the program on 1.44MB disks only.

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