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phil
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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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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
hi @amelie ! very cool that you're building this system out! My questions: are e-books a sustainable source of revenue for writers? how would you suggest writers leverage crypto/blockchain tech to earn revenue along the way of writing a large project like a book?
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amelielasker.eth
@amelie
In terms of earning revenue along the way to writing your first book (this is definitely a nearly universal issue--for most authors, they aren't getting a livable wage from an advance from a big publisher), I would recommend publishing work in smaller pieces that readers can collect onchain. This naturally builds your audience and creates a clear way to stay connected: for one thing, you will always know the public addresses of your collectors! Elle Griffin is doing great work with the Elysian Press exploring ways authors can fund works-in-progress by leveraging onchain. (https://www.elysian.press/) Blockchain publishing provides a beautifully direct solution: people can support your future work by buying current work, and then you can easily reward them later.
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
awesome! just subscribed and looking forward to reading :) It sounds to me like you're effectively describing episodic minting of a book (perhaps chapter by chapter), with the option to reward full set collectors when the book is finished. I like that concept a lot, and have been thinking about it for my own writing. I write long-form newlsetters, but effectively it's an episodic story that's been linked together over the years. I find the "collect post/chapter" model to be one that not a lot of people actually end up purchasing; is there a particular way you've noticed people incentivize this type of economic behaviour?
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