This was a good read https://zeuspay.com/btc-for-institutions

I thought this was going to be an article about accepting payments with Zeus 😅 (which I will now research on my own time)

@vinney...axkl was working on accepting Bitcoin on bookshop.org

I believe Evan K did the site up specially to test it out (it works great)

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How does one create a ZeusPay storefront on the web?

I believe that @EVAN KALOUDIS made it as a proof of concept

Oh I see, you use your zeuspay lightning address username: [username]@zeuspay.com

Maybe something @Konsensus Network could get in?

via via Bitrefill?

@Whitepaper Books !! our inventory will begin to fill up over the next couple weeks. waiting for the ink to dry on a contract with our distributor. we'll have a full selection of general books, not unlike Amazon

Let's fucken go! DRM free right?

Physical books, shipped to your house! DRM free books you can get from torrent sites, Blossom servers or Anna's Archive :)

So the value proposition is pay with bitcoin lightning, and not on Amazon, not a niche curation / collection?

exactly. i have a pretty excellent economics, stoicism and sci-fi collection curated (because of my interests), but mostly we'll have general interest books, best-sellers, etc as well as stock any special requests that visitors have as long as our distributor carries it. so the inventory will evolve with visitor engagement.

I'm thinking of what could be done to bring book links where books are being mentioned *without spam. All I've come up with is an opt in Shopstr client that renders book titles. I see and like that purchases support a humble local bookstore? How's it work?

> I see and like that purchases support a humble local bookstore? How's it work? I don't want to say too much for now, but the gist is that I have a relationship with a local brick and mortar bookstore and I know how difficult it is for them to stay in business. Whitepaper Books will devote much or all of its profits to that business :)

That's pretty cool I'll be following along. Stocking inventory and shipping is difficult and expensive so im very curious to see how you handle this :)

I'd love to be able to buy e-books via Lightning. Not only convenient for me, but the author could directly get full price for their book without any middlemen. e-books can already be sent to an Amazon Kindle simply by emailing the file to a special e-mail address associated with that device. Yes, I know we don't want Amazon to see what we're reading, but I'm just saying that we can bootstrap on that. Eventually, we'd like to have some open hardware options, where we can have a non-KYC e-book reader that can connect to a variety of e-book stores and buy the books via Bitcoin. In that system, piracy will exist; we'll be able to read books for free. But I hope that most people will be honest. Also, maybe the e-book reader will say something like "you've finished reading this book, but I see that you haven't paid for it, would you like me to pay the author for you?"