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The BitBooks.co eBook store now accepts Doge, FTC and LTC (in addition to BTC).
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I would propose that in this scenario the fault is more with you using bitpay than anything else. Sounds like their service doesn't exactly fit your needs. Given the current state of services (bitpay, mtgox) - I think the most forward thinking thing here would be designing your own payment processing software to accept bitcoin as you would then have control over how it works and what features you need / want. Assuming that you could find a decent programmer to design this for you...
...the upside is, if you could manage to develop this, I bet you could resell on some basis to other people wanting to accept micro payments and thus fill a void in the market relative to what bitpay is providing (aka a vpos system where traditional merchants, rather than micro tx merchants can simply sign up and accept bitcoin). Maybe you will become the defacto 'pay with bitcoin' for micro transactions and customers could fund their accounts with you in large amount while you dole out micro payments through more traditional means to other merchants.
I don't normally resurrect old threads like this, but I wanted to comment on an easier alternative to firefop's suggestion to roll your own solution as an alternate method than bitpay: Coinbase. In addition to their buying and selling bitcoin options where they act like an exchange, Coinbase also offers merchant tools. My experience with them is only with buying (sadly not as many as I should have back when bitcoins were cheaper, but oh well, live and learn), but their UI is super clean and I personally have no complaints with them. The reason I mention Coinbase is that the one time I sent bitcoins with Coinbase, I didn't have to pay the miner's fee. Coinbase paid it. And I'm sure it's a lot worse than 7% for a $1 transaction now since the price of a bitcoin has gone up significantly since you originally posted this thread. So if you're still hurting because of this, I recommend switching to Coinbase, as it would effectively eliminate this problem entirely. Bitcoin to bitcoin transfers are all free in Coinbase, the only time they charge you is when you take money out of Coinbase and transfer it into fiat currency, US Dollars for me. (And they waive even that amount for the first $1 million on transactions, which ought to last a while.) If you do decide to do this, I'd appreciate a signup through my referral URL, though no worries if you decide not do this. I already have a coinbase account, but I clicked the referral link for good measure. I had not kept up to date on this microtransaction option, so thank you for resurrecting the thread with useful information. However, I'm reading through and as far as I can figure the customer would have to be a Coinbase user to get the fee-free transaction. Makes sense of course, but I need to walk through the check out process and see what happens for a non-coinbase user. For now I'm going to add Coinbase as a third option, and I'll run it through and see how it feels. |
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Well good luck with the project! When the time comes we'll be happy to list your book, always room for more sci-fi :o)
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Late reply here as I haven't been watching the forums as much as I used to. Here's my biggest question / concern: given the huge volatility of bitcoin, if I use your site, I'd prefer to have the price of my books pegged to the US Dollar so that someone paying the equivalent of $10 (for example) one day wouldn't be paying $100 for the same product a month later. Do you have any automatic ways of doing that?
Yes, that's exactly how it works. When listing your entries you price your work in USD, BTC price conversion occurs at checkout. |
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Good idea.
If you can lower your payment threshold from 0.1 btc to say, 0.01 btc then I think more authors will consider to try listing their ebooks there.
Now it seems the number of listings is still far from enough.
Thanks for the feedback! Just to be clear, _all_ royalties are paid out at the end of the month, irrespective of amount. Only if the author reaches .1 before the end of the month then I send it out in advance of the monthly payout. |
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http://bitbooks.co now has over 100 authors signed up to place their ebooks online for BTC. Many of these authors have concerns and fears over their participation, so why not come browse the 50+ books we've collated and see if something sparks your fancy? You'll be showing these authors that this is a real way to make money online, and you'll be supporting BitBooks as a marketplace for these authors to sell to you directly . We have a small but growing collection of works placed online by both new and established authors, and more on the way. Swing by and take a look!
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BitBooks has had a major overhaul, adding books and checkout are now much easier and the backend for authors is no longer buggy as all hell  ) Service and support are now offered in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=417238.0 |
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Pretty low to be honest, for now the focus is on getting authors and content to populate the site. That said, sales tick along for the more popular authors.
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain. I'm working on something, maybe soon I can add to your site. Sounds good! Good luck with the project and let me know if and when I can be of help! |
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Pretty low to be honest, for now the focus is on getting authors and content to populate the site. That said, sales tick along for the more popular authors.
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Have a question or comment about BitBooks.co? Please use this thread for direct service.
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I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. I'm the owner/manager ) 2 things I noticed in a few minutes on your site, by the way it looks good. 1. there is not sci-fi (at least I didn't see it) 2. the price looks wierd like 9.920000 something like that, in my opinion should look something like 9.92 round to decimal points. How is the split with the author is it similar how Kindle does it? Thanks. 1. Sci-fi is in the main menu but won't show in the contextual menu until an author lists a sci-fi book. This saves you seeing a bunch of empty categories. 2. The trailing zeroes issue is due to having to switch back to USD as the base price. If you switch to BTC mode (converter in the footer section) you'll see friendlier BTC prices. I'm working on removing the trailing zeroes and a fix should be in by the end of the week. 3. Split is 90% author, 10% bitbooks.co |
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I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. I'm the owner/manager ) |
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A short while ago I built BitBooks.co as an eBook marketplace. It's a way for authors to join the program, sell books directly, and the site takes a cut. Building it was fun, but thanks to some new workload issues I'm reluctantly accepting the fact that I cannot continue growing the business. I'm looking to offload the Web site, domain, all associated property. here's what you get:Having had a few offers but nothing serious, I found some time to really dig in and get the site moving. Dozens of authors, updated software, everything is looking pretty peachy, so for now, not for sale. And if you want to sell or buy an eBook, drop by! http://bitbooks.co |
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My account is still active, please delete it.
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What confirmation are you going to need?
Transaction ID |
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I read the box that says "How to play Simon Says"
It says, and I quote: "Follow the pattern of lights and sound as long as you can..."
You are correct that I did not click the ambiguously-labelled button "Rules" to learn how to play. No, to learn how to play I clicked the button that says "How to play". So yes, in a sense, you are correct that I did not read the hidden instructions on the need to crash the game to be able to submit my score.
Just to be clear - which I know is not something you are fond of - to properly compete on your site I must read the rules of each game to learn how to crash each game so as to submit my score?
Just to be even clearer, I DID crash before the timer with a higher score. The submit button NEVER SHOWS for Simon Says.
My account is still active. As the user.php page is still 404, I cannot remove myself from your site. If I click "Edit Profile" I am presented with some rather eye-opening error messages.
Please delete my account. Thank you.
When you logged in an admin sent you a message in the chat system, there was no response. We will delete your account as you request. Could you confirm whether or not I am getting a refund? |
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I read the box that says "How to play Simon Says"
It says, and I quote: "Follow the pattern of lights and sound as long as you can..."
You are correct that I did not click the ambiguously-labelled button "Rules" to learn how to play. No, to learn how to play I clicked the button that says "How to play". So yes, in a sense, you are correct that I did not read the hidden instructions on the need to crash the game to be able to submit my score.
Just to be clear - which I know is not something you are fond of - to properly compete on your site I must read the rules of each game to learn how to crash each game so as to submit my score?
Just to be even clearer, I DID crash before the timer with a higher score. The submit button NEVER SHOWS for Simon Says.
My account is still active. As the user.php page is still 404, I cannot remove myself from your site. If I click "Edit Profile" I am presented with some rather eye-opening error messages.
Please delete my account. Thank you.
When you logged in an admin sent you a message in the chat system, there was no response. We will delete your account as you request. I am unaware of a chat system on your site. There is a forum with three messages in it, but none of them refer to me. Your "rules" tab for every game are all the same rules, they all have the Simon Says rules. You may want to correct this. |
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Good gravy. User page is 404. Dispute score page is 404. Then this: Warning: include_once(/var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/top_header.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/edit_profile.php on line 1 Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'top_header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/edit_profile.php on line 1 Notice: Undefined variable: curmemid in /var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/edit_profile.php on line 3 Warning: mysql_query(): Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO) in /var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/edit_profile.php on line 4 Warning: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in /var/www/vhosts/gamerholic.com/httpdocs/edit_profile.php on line 4 Access denied for user 'apache'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Hey Gamerholic dude. Please find my account in your database and wipe every trace of it from your records. Many thanks. You can keep the rest of my BTC. Enjoy it. Even twitter, facebook and other billion dollar company have site errors. This will be corrected. None of the quoted companies every wrote an app to connect to a public database using the default apache user and no password. Or allow things like http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7dY7URQWSVUJ:www.gamerholic.com/FBipList.php+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us to happen. Also, http://www.gamerholic.com/admin_add_arcade_game.php |
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Sent money. Inserted coin. Played Simon. Beat high score. No submit score option. Inserted coin. Beat high score. No submit score option. Repeat. Etc. I would like my $30,000 now please.  This is an obvious error, the bitcoin IPN script calculated wrong. Not obvious to me. Please forward me details of my transaction, I think I may have sent a little too much Bitcoin. I would check it in my profile but you and I both know that page doesn't work. Alternatively, I will settle for half. |
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