How are you paying the distributor.

Bookshop.org

Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.

A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.

is a good place to buy books instead of Amazon but I don’t think they accept Bitcoin.

right, this was where I started. I'm affiliated with someone who has a bookshop.org store and I was thinking of hacking together a way to take bitcoin payments and route through bookshop - but that's kind of insane when this person already has business relationships with distributors who provide APIs.... a search + cart + bitcoin checkout + some API integrations with the distributors seems totally doable....!

If you say so! I’d love to buy books with Bitcoin.

that's what i figured :)

Great idea. Even better if it accepts privacy-focused coin.

we could do cashu also. but their shipping address would be visible to the shop. so only so private you can get. ...unless...

Catallax - A Protocol for Pseudonymous Contract Work Economies

Catallax is an open protocol that enables pseudonymous contract work economies. It runs over Nostr, Bitcoin and Cashu ecash for censorship-resistan...

I'm hoping bitcoin ushers in an era where libraries are no longer homeless shelters. i miss the libraries of my youth.

So in other words, a trusted intermediary?

I could see a sort of forwarding service being helpful. It reduces your vectors of risk.

right, trust one entity with your address rather than every merchant you shop with.

To make small sellers for bitcoin feasible there has to be a bitcoin escrow service. This has to get solved. I am hoping for something in layer 2 using Ark

why escrow?

Small scale, ideally anonymous, buyers and sellers need a trustless way to exchange.

oh - what we were discussing here:

I've got some calls lined up this week. If the numbers work out to be roughly survivable I'll dive in. but you fuckers better pull your weight and buy enough books to at least break even!

We'll you'd have to trust the escrow service.

Remember bit escrow? The fact that they couldn’t get traction shows that nobody uses bitcoin for real commerce. Bitcoiners were like “why would I need an escrow” lol

Hey @vinney...axkl, might be worth also checking out book.io… they are minting books to blockchain (cardano, eth, polygon, base, algo, and bitcoin coming soon). These guys have already signed one of the top 10 global publishers, and a top 5 is about to sign. They are talking to most of the others too. Massive record labels and artists in discussions too. The huge Ingram Content Group labelled them as the next disruption in ebooks and have invested in them more than once. Other investors include BMG, Mark Cuban and Charles Hoskinson. They already have a Creator Portal out for authors and musicians to sell their books, price is about $60 from memory, for a book, and from $15 for music. Nostr-based musician @Ainsley Costello recently minted one of her songs on the platform.

thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not doing ebooks nor touching shitcoin chains.

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Whitepaper Books

Whitepaper Books

A bookstore for the post-fiat mind.

(massive) Inventory incoming! Actively working through the distributor relationships. I'm hopeful for this week or next.