I am open to recommendations on a platform to make Broken Money easily buyable with sats, either print+ebook or just ebook (since I won’t be handling physical shipping).

Let me know some of the best ways to proceed and I’ll look into them.

This first round is print books on Amazon, which is done. Next in the queue is the kindle version which should be available within a week or so.

And then the audiobook will come out. It’s in development but it takes time.

In parallel with the audiobook, I will be working to have it available in print in Barnes and Noble and other bookstores.

And I will figure out a way to make it buyable in sats. As I said, I am open to suggestions on the best way to do that. Any books I happen to sell in person will of course be buyable with cash or sats.

And then depending on sales figures, I will be looking into translation options.

All of the profits from the first thousand copies sold (about $5 per book) will go to the Human Rights Foundation Bitcoin Development Fund.

And for those for whom the book price is a burden or distribution is an issue, perhaps because they live in countries where the money is most broken, I invite them to pirate it.

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listened to a podcast about this project. very cool.

None of these have a shipping service.

I too am interested in a marketplace like Etsy to sell in sats.

Shipping service? You can add shipping amounts on these platforms, but she was asking about selling a digital copy, which requires no actual shipping.

Are you going to voice the audiobook yourself?

No, but people will like the narrator.

Don't leave us in suspense! Who?!?

Is it this guy nostr:npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv ?

Of course not! 🤣

I kinda hope it's Guy, that would give the book continuity with all the articles he has already read. 😃

I think I know who it is

Oh wait, I’ve know what happened here before.

I think I know who it is

Bought nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak last book with sats and it was seamless. He used OpenNode.

I second this

I think nostr:npub1eequz6v23szzyx9utphsh8kg6kll50wte6sfh4vah8gdjtplcz6qg7at9s would be a nice platform to collaborate with.

Seems like the obvious answer is by hosting a website with a btcpay store. There are a ton of plebs who would be willing and able to help. You could probably set it up in an afternoon although I’m not sure how feasible managing inventory/shipping would be. Maybe someone else could chime in 🤷‍♂️

Do you mean a self-hosted BTCPay Server or something else?

Yeah

I like the idea of using a BTCPay Server for receiving payment. What I haven’t seen is how to hook it up to fulfillment.

I don’t want to handle shipping product myself. There are companies that specialize in this. I’d love to somehow hook it all up end-to-end.

Hey nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a that is good news to me! Was hoping you would work on an audio book. Will wait for it. For those who want to pay with #sats, you can already get a Amazon card with sats on #Bisq or something similar and then just pay the book with that. Not ideal but works already. Would be also interested what is state of the art in #BTC Plattforms. #BrokenMoney

I bought Fiat Standard and PoE ebooks from Saifedean website using lightning. Seamless experience. Maybe you can use the same payment API or other related stuff like him.

Agree

👆🏼

saifedean might have an idea

Ordered, can’t wait to read it Lyn

Does that mean that the copyright holder of the book is you and not your publisher?

I'm sure there's a pleb with space in their garage to store & send out over BTCpay or LNbits.

🤙

Ordered a copy today.! Happy to hear some of my Fiat is off to the human rights foundation. Well done Lyn. Can’t wait to read it.

Got it.

Seems only fair to pay in sats….. could me in!

Not a recommendation, but I'd be interested in an honesty model. Have a free download and a sat price and address and just see what roles in. It would be nice to have a way to donate for people that have to pirate but want to contribute something too.

An Audio option be great

I would like to see an option to buy eBook plus audio option. Audio ideally on some other than Audible platform so we can have proper ownership of it rather than renting rights.

Take a look at nodeless.io nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8. Maybe it fits your needs.

Fucking legend, Lyn.

LFG !!

The simplest option would probably just be an LNbits instance with a plugin and put a direct download link behind their paywall link. Share that paywalled link and anyone can purchase the download for a certain amount of sats.

Looking forward to it!

Are you going to do a book tour?

I think the opennode API is fantastic if you wanted to use that right with your website.

Other thing with that though is who would then ship your books, etc, but if that was sorted then should integrate fine with like opennode + woocomerce for your website

legend ⚡️🔥💜

Hi Lyn, for German speaking countries I would recommend bitcoin only publisher https://aprycot.media/

and https://copiaro.de

Both shops accept Bitcoin/lightning

Good luck !

You can make them zap this note. Add their address to as the note to the lightning transaction ..

Another option is to write a bot that sends DM to whoever zaps this note certain amount of sats. The DM will have a link to the ebook. Then we have to change the URL of the ebook time to time to avoid mass pirating. The bot should whitelist good lightning wallet providers to avoid fake zap notes to be honored.

SatSale plugs into woocomerce.

Check out coinos.io

Not sure if it’ll help you, but it’s a great web wallet and has a good telegram group. They’re trying to onboard people that want to accept Bitcoin as payment.

Highlighter is heading in this direction

Nostr would be a cool option. On the WBD pod recently they were talking about such functionality, including a few names of some teams looking at just that. Digital only.

How about in the printed version an option to send some sats which contributes to some fund which is used to gift the book others? Academic institutions, LEDCs etc?

Queen of Egypt!

⚡️

nostr:npub1jqs0u7zhh53e94gyhm4eu458wm6sw7z0kk66jjhhkhh346tcq2ysfgr247 maybe Konsensus Network could be an option?

Your website is all you need, well, that and a couple of plugins. 🤙🏻

https://www.publish0x.com/bitcointalkies/how-to-sell-ebooks-for-bitcoin-xgldgek

Conscientious, thoughtful and kind. 🙏🏾 Respect.

zaprite.com (Jimmy Song used this for his book fundraiser, see https://fiatruinseverything.com/)

Yes. Where is Nostrazon?

nostr:npub1eequz6v23szzyx9utphsh8kg6kll50wte6sfh4vah8gdjtplcz6qg7at9s ?

👏👏👏🤙⚡️

Well Lyn.

I am interested in your book. I have read some of your articles. So I will wait for this one.

I live in a country with a super broken currency xD (The hyperinflationary Venezuelan Bolivar).

I will wait for an option to come out to be able to have the ebook and pay with Sats.

Value for value never hurts if you pay with Bitcoin (LN).

I hope to have a translation in Spanish. For more people interested in the subject.

If you pirate the book 🏴‍☠️

I will send you some LN Sats 👍.

Greetings

It looks like Agora on an Umbrel server could be quick and easy.

https://apps.umbrel.com/app/agora

nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct

#LNbits has a #Nostr market you can use to sell your book directly on Nostr.

https://yeghro.site/2023/08/12/the-nostr-market/

Call me a far right extremist, but I think information should be free and copyright laws should be a thing of the past. "Intellectual property" are, after all, mere ideas and no one can "own" ideas.

Glad to hear you are at least inviting less fortunate people to pirate it.

Also perhaps consider a Pay-What-You-Want model? Or a "Take now, pay later" type of model.

OK all that being said, the Magic Webstore by nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s is probably the best option if you want to have no middlemen (I haven't played around with it myself tho, so can't really comment on it's ease-of-use and viability, but looks great in the introductory video):

https://magicwebstore.xyz/onboard.html

"Invite them to pirate it" AWESOME! I can afford it so I would buy it but for those who really can't afford it I think this is an awesome thing.

Perhaps https://www.zapit.live could be used.

Made by: nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f

all class 🤙

easy peasy selling digital copies for sats

https://magicwebstore.xyz/onboard.html

You’re fuckin awesome Lyn!

We would love to host your online store 🤩

EU based Bitcoin friendly e-commerce platform

#easywebshop

Wait till everyone discovers that the audiobook narrator is Jerome Powell. 🤣

Still didn’t decide! Buy in US and pay shipment costs to EU, or wait to have it available here! Opportunity cost dilemma…

English version is on Amazon in various EU countries.

In this post I have links to it on all the marketplaces where it is sold, right above the editorial reviews:

https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/

Wen on Apple Books?

Got mine in the EU without the intense shipping yesterday, check your local Amazone again! It's a bestseller so they shipped it to more warehouses.

LEGEND. can’t wait to get it. *GoneGone pulls put his pockets and a moth flies out like in The Mask’

When e-book with sats Lyn?

Regarding your text “Any books I happen to sell in person will of course be buyable with cash or sats”, will you be signing and selling those books?

Hi Lyn, if having your own store within your wordpress environment is an option, check out https://btcpaywall.com/ in conjunction with #btcpayserver. With this solution you would be independent from other service providers. However, legal and tax considerations would also be necessary.

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a — how about blockchain education programs in schools & college textbooks??

Caitlin why do you always say ‘blockchain’ like 2017 TV pundits who know nothing about anything ‘crypto’ related, and will push anything BUT bitcoin.

Blockchain is simple and can be explained in <10 minutes. Bitcoin is complicated.

You can't explain it succinctly enough yet

nice 🏴‍☠️

For pirating z-library is a good platform for distribution.

Maybe you can sell it by yourself and avoid to pay selling fees 😊 you can add a form to your page and use lnurlpay service to receive sats and the email in the comment field, so your can send the ebook there. Something like this as an example with my lightning address:

🔗 https://www.lnurlpay.com/marcelo@walletofsatoshi.com/36600?comment=Ebook:%20marcelo@myemail.com

"I invite them to pirate it."