Oooh, I think it's a great idea to get the proof copy. It's just that you can't do much with one copy of a book, so you'd have to pay them to print more copies...which I suppose is the whole gimmick of this offer. Sending it out to agents and publishers is probably what I'm going to do too since I registered with Authonomy today and was totally shocked at how unprofessional all the posted novel entries are. Waaaah! I doubt the editors at HarperCollins are going to take many of them seriously unless the writers improve their summaries and rewrite their sample pages. Doh!