Readers should own the digital goods the eBooks and Audiobooks they buy. BOOK Token, harnessing the power of the Cardano blockchain as our backbone, will create an NFT marketplace and platform that will forever change digital reading. For the first time, readers will be able to buy eBooks and Audiobooks, earn BOOK Tokens for consuming these works, and sell their NFTs in the secondary market. Publishers and authors, equipped with smart contracts, will earn industry-high royalties for first time sales, and royalties on secondary sales in perpetuity. This entire decentralized network will be validated and secured by BOOK Token, the next page in the history of books.
Readers
Authors & Publishers
Decentralized
In order to build out this entire system correctly with new benefits for readers, publishers, and authors, it takes more than just a cryptocurrency. BOOK TOKEN will reward readers, mint NFTS for authors and publishers, verify reading behavior for educational institutions, and power the secondary marketplace. It is the foundation for the reading dApps and validating transactions.
The BOOK token platform and exchange is the first of its kind by using reading to “mine” for tokens. In order to obtain $BOOK tokens, users must purchase NFT books – and then read them. Readers are ONLY rewarded with native $BOOK tokens based on how much they read. The more you read, the more $BOOK you can earn. These Cardano-native tokens are redeemable on the platform to purchase new eBooks and Audiobooks – and also transferrable from the BOOK Token platform to other compatible wallets and crypto exchanges.
On June 2, 2021, 10 Billion $BOOK Token were minted as native-based Cardano tokens. This is a fixed supply and no more tokens can ever be created. The source for this is available for review at CardanoScan.io at https://bit.ly/3KHA07s.
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Genesis – Complete
Initial Fundraising, Team Creation, and Industry Partnerships
Foundation – Complete
Infrastructure for NFT Books, DRM encryption, SmartContracts, NFT Gating, Book Club Functionality, Transitive Royalties
Mainnet Public Launch – 07.20.2022
Fully Decentralized Encrypted NFT eBooks (First Decentralized Encrypted Assets – DEAs) + Anonymous Browser-based Open eReader
More Book NFTs + $BOOK Token
More NFT Book Releases, Marketplace and P2P Exchange Launch, Public Crowd Sale of $BOOK Utility Tokens, Onboarding of Publisher Catalogues
Build, Build, Build
Mint+Print™ Book Bundling, Asset Management/Internal Wallet Generation, Bulk NFT Distribution, Mobile App Release, Read-to-Earn launch, Audiobook Integration, Multi-Chain Integration, Multi-language Support, Accessibility
Scaling
Fully Decentralized Reader, SDKs for any external reader implementation, Author/Publisher Tools, Enterprise Marketing System, SmartContract WYSIWYG
Governance
Voting platform, Autonomous Key Management dApp, Fully Decentralized eReader
- Foundation –
CompleteInfrastructure for NFT Books, DRM encryption, SmartContracts, NFT Gating, Book Club Functionality, Transitive Royalties - More Book NFTs + $BOOK TokenMore NFT Book Releases, Marketplace and P2P Exchange Launch, Public Crowd Sale of $BOOK Utility Tokens, Onboarding of Publisher Catalogues
- ScalingFully Decentralized Reader, SDKs for any external reader implementation, Author/Publisher Tools, Enterprise Marketing System, SmartContract WYSIWYG
- Genesis –
CompleteInitial Fundraising, Team Creation, and Industry Partnerships - Mainnet Public Launch – 07.20.2022Fully Decentralized Encrypted NFT eBooks (First Decentralized Encrypted Assets – DEAs) + Anonymous Browser-based Open eReader
- Build, Build, BuildMint+Print™ Book Bundling, Asset Management/Internal Wallet Generation, Bulk NFT Distribution, Mobile App Release, Read-to-Earn launch, Audiobook Integration, Multi-Chain Integration, Multi-language Support, Accessibility
- GovernanceVoting platform, Autonomous Key Management dApp, Fully Decentralized eReader
RJ has 20+ years of software engineering experience and has led teams at both startups and Fortune 10 companies. He has delivered a wide variety of production software written in 15+ programming languages.
Bob is head partner at Wright Connaster Law Firm in Dallas, TX. He has started and sold several tech companies, and has been in the tech space since the 1990s.