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Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by christiansakai on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:02AM (#23312019)
Not a writer but I can empathize. Do you have any proposed solution in mind?
Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by ge96 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:27AM (#23312324)
Not op: Can you add some unique tracker/signature per purchase so you can tell what copy was used to upload. Probably pointless with regard to the stolen cc comment/new accounts.
Re:I won’t buy ebooks anymore by Turukawa on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:58PM (#23314339)
Sure :) The biggest barrier is micro-payments. If I could charge as a streaming service, but without having to go through a major platform (I don't want Spotify-for-books), then that would be perfect. I actually pitched this to GrantForTheWeb using their Web Monetization toolkit.