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I was talking with some friends about a book I had recently published (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B9P48LV/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8).
They jokingly suggested a lot of ways I could give free copies of the book to people.
Here are some of the silly ideas we came up:
Make a potato gun (a PVC pipe with one end sealed and a small amount of gunpowder in that end). Stick the book into the assembled potato gun. Shoot the book into people's driveways.
Buy a large number of rubber bands and wrap the book around the outside of people's mailboxes.
Get a large blowpipe, use it to shoot the book at prospective customers. If you find you can't blow hard enough to shoot the book out with your breath, rig an air compressor to the blowpipe.
Build or buy a large number of piñatas, and fill each one with copies of your book. Sell the piñatas to various partygoers, or host your own party.
Get a job that involves operating a cash register at a retail store. Keep a pile of your books at the cash register. As you check customers out, give each of them a book as "free literature."
Get a large number of messenger pigeons and train them to drop off books at various locations.
Rent a B-52 bomber plane from your nearest military base and fill it with copies of your book. Fly over the nearest urban area and drop your payload.
Rent a hot air balloon, place copies of your book inside the balloon. Fly the hot air balloon over an urban area, and drop books from the sky as you go. If you can't budget for a hot air balloon, simply place the books in plastic bags, attach them to helium balloons, and let the balloons fly.
Dress up as a hitchhiker and walk through neighborhoods, knocking on doors and politely asking to use people's bathrooms. Once inside, hide a copy of the book somewhere in the bathroom.
Get some plastic bags and duct tape. Place a book in each plastic bag, and begin looking for stray animals in your neighborhood. Every time you see one, tape a bag to it and let it go.
DISCLAIMER: This article is meant to be a joke. Most of these suggestions are impractical and likely illegal.
