Triple-A textbooks for US students: affordable, accessible, available
Imagine a new system, IndiviDUALbooks, to access every world book. In1click. For free. From distant libraries collections, without registering.
In 10 slides, for B2B experts
https://bit.ly/oeBook4KotkaMesensei.
Or, in 12 slides, for students, prospect users, B2C — prosumers
It provides access to books (e.g., orphan books/out-of-print), which can’t be found from a local library/local shop. It is competing against Amazon’s predatory book sales flywheel, explained by Cory Doctorow https://doctorow.medium.com/how-amazon-makes-everything-you-buy-more-expensive-no-matter-where-you-buy-it-78f1a9433ea7,
but supports LOCAL entrepreneurs, printing books at the Last Mile.
It is legal exception (fair use / fair dealing) from copyright laws, when a person who owns a book, makes its copy FOR PRIVATE USE by another person, SUBJECT to paying fair royalty for such one-copy-for-one-new-user (BOOK-OF-ONE) sharing. In US you can’t assess what is FAIR royalty. But in many European countries (and in UK, Canada) we have Public Lending Right laws, when AUTHOR royalty is paid every time a book is borrowed from a public library. In Finland PLR royalty = 0.31 €. It is FAIR royalty, for author, by our solution’s choice. NOT for greedy publishers’ zero-value job.
Slide 3 from https://bit.ly/oeBook4Kotka
So, imagine, a person1 — myself — owns a book (or I borrowed one from my local library) and I copy it / scan with my phone. It takes only 20 min. to flip average 400-pages book’s pages under a phone camera, please check the free DocScan app⁴ in app stores:
Then IndiviDUALbooks app (its 12 € yearly fee is 1/10th of competitors’ 9.99$/month. Or any book access costs only 1 hour scan work, by phone)
— converts the pdf/jpeg scanned pictures into FREE, not-licensed “. epub” file, EPUB format, it is optimal for e-reading, and sends it encrypted to the certain person2, who asked me to share this book, in our READ-Cooperative community https://readcoop.eu/members/.
EU DI wallets (Digital Identity) system ensures that only one person can access this MyData Global #IndiviDUALbook copy. The system even provides for printing it near the home of the person2 (printed-on-demand by a LOCAL entrepreneur, at the Last Mile, in one copy.
Read about BOOK-OF-ONE trend here:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7113221677647327234
Such approach “send a book digitally & print it physically” saves nature and halves book costs, by eliminating book shops / librarians manual costs
https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/216736.
Then this copy may be shared further, beyond a local library walls, to a next reader person3, or recycled… Each access sends FAIR royalty to book’s author. Such book circular economy saves 90% of a Library Book Life Cycle (and replaces book procurement costs by book postage, also predatory publishers’ eBook license costs). Amazon receives 50+% profits from selling Long Tail, i.e. rare books. And kills local business by Amazon’s ‘flywheel’. Our solution enables FREE (or sharply reduced) access to Long Tail books.
Dear Americans, please ask EU people to help you, to halve book costs. It is LEGAL, even by the US copyright law³. The Big Four Publishers sued Internet Archive’s Controlled Digital Lending, we offer our helping hand, from Europe/UK — to US students, who must pay 1000+$ yearly, sky-rocketing prices of textbooks.
Scan books by phone, have fun (like PERSONAL beer¹) and save² the world!
#IndiviDUALbooks offer solving #eBookSOS problems as well.
¹ https://bit.ly/oeBookAndBeer
² https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/
³ “The Court held that the first sale doctrine applies to goods manufactured outside of the United States, and the protections and exceptions offered by the Copyright Act to works “lawfully made under this title” is not limited by geography. Rather, it applies to all copies legally made anywhere, not just in the United States, in accordance with U.S. copyright law. So, wherever a copy of a book is first made and sold, it can be resold in the U.S. without permission from the publisher.[6]”
Mann, Ronald (March 19, 2013). “Opinion analysis: Justices reject publisher’s claims in gray-market copyright case”. SCOTUSblog. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
⁴ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.ac.tuwien.caa.docscan&hl=en&gl=US
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doc-scan-pdf-scanner-fax/id453312964#?platform=iphone
