I hacked Amazon. It is irreversible: people can win over BigTech
I hacked Amazon. Legally¹¹. It’s called serendipity¹, our œBœks™ goal.
What if
-when a book is not available from a local library website,
- a library patron points smartphone camera at a book’s cover, in our app
- the Augmented Reality Button (QR-code) starts blinking on the screen
- by tapping this button, the book is home delivered, FOR FREE⁸ (see the last paragraph below),
tailor-cut to YOUR need (language, format, per MyData Global conform anonymous ID² profile), on ‘hybrid’ paper, i.e. with the book’s digital twins.
It is our service, œBœks™ / OpenEurope Books / IndiviDUALbooks, in2taps.
The issue: seamless getting people on-board, by the incentive of FREE access to any world-dispersed book, vs. The Privacy Paradox³ / laziness to start using our service⁴, #IndiviDUALbooks.
SOLUTION.
Remember the Augmented Reality (AR) games like Pokemon Go? We replace Pokemons by adversarial⁵ interoperability⁶ AR QR-codes at greedy publishers’ websites (e.g. at Amazon’s — see the pic above ‘Amazon kills eBook sales’), who add insult to injury by litigating⁷ against public libraries’ eBook lending.
By tapping this QR-code button, the book is home delivered, tailor-cut to an under-served library patron’s need, with author royalty paid at book access,
FOR FREE⁸ — when public libraries accept our business model, i.e. paid by tax
- or for 12€ yearly membership fee
- or in exchange for the volunteer’s time at book scanning by smartphone:
- Button access is granted for scanning books by smartphone for the readers’ cooperative⁹, it takes only 15 min. for 400-pages book scan, with speed of pages flipping.
- Or: you may pay READ-coop⁹ + PolyPoly¹º Coop membership fee 12€, which is much less than any textbook’s price. 12 € includes unlimited amount of eBooks / recurring price of a paper book.
¹ Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
² https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355978723_Disposable_Yet_Official_Identities_DYOI
³ The privacy paradox is a dichotomy in how a person intends to protect their online privacy versus how they actually behave online — and how they don’t protect their information online
⁶ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
⁷ https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
⁸ https://bit.ly/oeBook4XESpitch
