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Welcome @amelie! Alexandria Labs (alexandriabooks.com) builds infrastructure for authors and publishers to release ownable, un-bannable, un-censorable e-books with web3. She has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag her so she can easily find them)
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Rapid fire here! 1. Why should books be onchain? 2. Do you see the ability to put books onchain as a way to open up doors for creators that might otherwise be closed? 3. What is a book that you havenā€™t brought onchain yet that you really want to and why? 4. As somebody that buys a lot of books but never reads them any advice of getting into a rhythm of reading more.
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YAS MIKE HI 1. All digital media and information should be onchain, because if it's not onchain it's vulnerable to loss, bitrot, and censorship! And as more and more of our lives are happening online and in digital spaces, people should be able to privately and permanently access the media they interact with. (They need to be able to own their ebooks.) 2. Absolutely, and we're seeing that happen already on Alexandria and on all platforms that give more power to creators. Onchain publishing democratizes distribution by returning control to publishers and authors (who are no longer beholden to corporate platforms for the publishing, maintenance, and distribution of their books), and by making it possible for newer or more niche books to succeed. The requirements of scale with traditional publishing, in part just because it costs so much to print and distribute physical books, these things force traditional publishing to focus on a few bestsellers to return most of their profit. (continued)
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So democratized distribution allows a far wider range of media to be made, funded, and enjoyed by people. This is great for authors and publishers but it's especially great for READERS. There is no individual who only wants to read the books that have the most mass appeal, and yet the traditional publishing model heavily favors books with mass appeal getting made. I mean, I love my NYTimes Bestsellers and I love the books everyone is talking about, the ones that get giant displays in every bookstore. But I also want to read weird literary sci fi that is simply never going to get a billboard or get made into a TV series. And that weird literary sci fi needs to exist and find its readers. If we can lower barriers to funding niche art, the industry benefits and so do consumers.
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