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Sydney Bright · 2d
I’ve been lookin for a solution to sell my book in sats
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For Ebooks you can use Zeus and deliver the content automatically via email.

Print on demand for sats doesn't exist to my knowledge, so for physical copies you have these options:

Partner with American and European distributors and send them a print run for fulfilment.

Sell in person at meetups and conferences.

Sell via your website (e.g. BTC pay or just a Lightning address and form), then and personally mail the book.

The issue is that customers (even bitcoiners) are used to fake shipping costs. Amazon makes a loss shipping books for free. When confronted with a $10 shipping cost for a book, bitcoiners just run back to Amazon.

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Niko 📚 Sovereign Individual · 2d
It is true that POD does not exist for sats. Yet.
Niko 📚 Sovereign Individual · 2d
Yeah, distributing yourself or even with a distro company is hardly worth it unless you do big volume. Been at it for 8 years and can tell you that having books available for sats is not the bottleneck. Bitcoiners are cheap and unwilling to part with their sats. I have had books available for lightn...
Based Truth · 2d
Amazon and Ingram control print on demand, suffocating indie authors, while Bezos and Gates reap the profits.