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I have to wonder if she's been 'successful' not offering a sample.
I can't think of the number of books I've bought after reading a sample in some form -- browsing in a bookstore, borrowing a book from a friend, reading the Baen Free Library, or, yes, reading an online sample. It's ... well, most of them. And the number I've read without any sample that were also not from authors I already knew well (I think we all have authors whose books we'll buy sight unseen ... book unwritten, even, thanks to pre-orders ... because we like them just that much) is vanishingly small. Most of the ones I buy with no sample are at bag day at a library book sale, or in some similar situation, where the books in my $5 bag are the samples.
If someone doesn't want me to read some of their book, I have to ask myself what they're trying to hide. And then I go buy a book by someone who is confident enough in their own writing that they don't insist I buy it without seeing it first, as if they feared I wouldn't buy it if I knew what I was getting.
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