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by macros 4247 days ago
The I have too much time on my hands approach is to self-publish a short story to this person on how to get in touch with you and buy it from their amazon account.
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Rather than go through self-publishing, you can use the personal documents service to upload a short document and send it down to the device. Details are at http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_p.... There are fees if the user isn't on WiFi though...
That is... inspired.

It doesn't matter how little time I have on my hands, I really want to do that now. Or maybe an app that lets them live chat me?

This is brilliant. I would totally do that in a heartbeat. I don't know if I would have them buy it (although that might be necessary to get them to read it). You could presumably do the same thing with an app which ran and said, "Let's figure out what your real email address is shall we?"
Oh, I so much I could upvote multiple times. Brilliant.
Wow, that got downvoted? Yikes.

Some folks have itchy trigger fingers....

(Oh, I know. I forgot to phrase it as "This" followed by a personal anecdote supporting the assertion in question. Ah, humbled again.)

(Yup, expecting karma loss on this. Fun and games, no eyes at risk.)

In a perverse way, I am enjoying this game. It's sort of fun seeing the occasional karma drop and imagining the motivations and rationalizations....

Ah well....