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Introduction
We have two powerful tools to share, sell, recommend books electronically: Telegram and Bitcoin LNTXBOT.
So in order to put together authors, readers, publishers, we've created a simple Telegram group, where we can use LNTXBOT feature to "embed" a file (pdf, epub) into a message that can be revealed privately by the user that pays the price attached to the message.
You can sell for sats (satoshis, the smallest unit of Bitcoin) any electronic book you have, you wrote, you publish or you just want to share. We think that if is not your book, you are not the author, it is your obligation and/or wish to share the sats earned in the group, with the author. Or encourage the author to post his books directly in the group.
The group is just facilitating a simple way to sell and spread the books. That's all.
Basic rules:
don't spam the chat with unnecessary messages, just post your book to sell.
don't dump all your books collection into the chat, please take example of previous ones, how they post. We don't want torrents with tons of books, we want an organized way to buy/sell books, like small library.
it's a free market, you decide the price
if you are a publisher and want promote a book for an author, you are welcome, but it's your own business how you split the sats with the author
if you are the author you are more than welcome to post your books and sell them for sats directly. We encourage authors to come.
if you are just a reader that want to share a nice interesting book, it's OK, but remember is good that you contact the author and inform that you get some sats for his/her book and share those sats with. This is normal and nice to do it. Also spreading the Bitcoin adoption.
How to do it?
Requirements
Have a Telegram account, with a @nickname configured (see LNTXBOT guide). You can also switch to another language, EN, RU, DE and ES.
Join to Telegram group OnlyBooksLN, its free.
As a buyer, you need some satoshis in your LNTXBOT wallet balance (here is a guide how to deposit funds in LNTXBOT).
As a seller, you just need to activate your LNTXBOT wallet by sending /start in the private chat with LNTXBOT. You can optional pair your LNTXBOT Telegram wallet with Bluewallet/Zeus (see more details in LNTXBOT guide).
Process
The process is simple and works instant due to Bitcoin LN (Lightning Network) payments through LNTXBOT. No intermediary, no fees (except some tiny fees for tx that are paid to the network), no censorship (but we expect some decency and respect from posters).
As a seller:
Go to LNTXBOT private chat.
Send as regular message your electronic book file (pdf, epub etc).
Reply to that same message with the command:
/hide <amount> <short description of the book/title> --private
where <amount> is replaced with the sats you want to receive
where <description> is the short text/title of the book, format of file etc.
where --private is the option to be send/revealed only to the buyer not to the whole group.
Example:
/hide 500 The Bitcoin Standard, Saifeadean Ammous, pdf, 200 pages --private
A message like this will popup and you just have to click "share in another chat" button and then choose OnlyBooksLN Telegram Group. Your message will be posted and ready to receive buyers.
To have a nice presentation and also a way to index all these books, before sharing the "sell offer" from the LNTXBOT in the group please send a nice cover page picture of the book (if you have it), attaching also a short description. Nice presentations sells better. Also add #tags like category of the book and language of the book.
Example:
After posting that image and description in the group, go to @lntxbot chat and click the share button for the ad to be posted in the group, right after your image post
Done, now for each user will click to buy your offer, you will receive the sats in your LNTXBOT wallet.
Your book sell offer will be available for 72 days. after that the offer is expired and you have to post it again.
As a buyer:
Go to OnlyBooksLN Telegram Group.
Search for the books you want and just click button to reveal it in private. Automatically you will pay from your LNTXBOT balance the amount displayed.
You will receive a private message in the LNTXBOT chat with attached file of the book, so you can download and store wherever you want.
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