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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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amelielasker.eth
@amelie
Yes I'd recommend episodic minting, or even just starting with minting smaller complete pieces on your way to making a bigger work. We've had authors reward collectors of their previous finished work with new editions through airdrops, for example. I think newsletters are a really great way to do the ongoing episodic thing because inherently it keeps people along for the ride, and also there are so many great newsletter platforms now that let you offer both free and paid options.
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
for sure! Appreciate your thoughts. I guess extending the newsletter component, I've found that subscriber models, collect models, and pay to read models don't seem to quite fit into the ownership side of newsletter writing. do you have thoughts on other models that could be used for onchain writing monetization episodically, specifically for something like a newsletter?
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