Books

I am not seeing much progress in PUBLISHING 😬 I don't see somebody making Kindle-like publishing easier and more accessible onchain. 

Am I missing something?

https://paragraph.xyz/@buildbetter/publishing-onchain-1

Who wants to fund a crypto publishing start up that's building a specific e-ink device reader that also acts as a crypto wallet and web interface. Publishing books for sale and resale in crypto, subscription plans available, royalties set by owner. Think a cross between Opensea and Amazon Kindle, where the books you buy are always you own to do what you want with.

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ooops, meant to tag @danicaswanson in that!

I'm not sure what a web 3 specific business model looks like. I imagine this working in exactly the same way as self publishing on Amazon does now with the platform taking a cut of the royalties but the ownership of the content being passed to the buyer with copyright checks in place so the buyer can't then list the worl as originally theirs. 

Payment processing via crypto should be easy enough with decentralised content storage via ipfs ala opensea. 

I really think the main issue is the device itself. No one wants to read books on a laptop or phone. 

In some ways i think this is also the issue with digital art.

Sounds promising, but "who wants to fund" is likely the biggest roadblock there. 

I suspect legacy publishing business models aren't likely to work well for something like this. 

We may need to develop web3-specific publishing business models before we can make any real headway.