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In February I was announced in the Vibook Facebook Fanpage as the new member of the project's advisory board where I'll collaborate in this Brazilian blockchain and cryptocurrency initiative for the publishing, creative and knowledge economy.
As explained in its website, Vibook (http://www.vibook.io) aims to use the technology to garantee and track the authorship, and enable collaborative financing, support and interaction between authors, readers, reviewers, academics and editorial services professionals. All of this using blockchain and cryptocurrency with smart contracts, self-registration, time stamping and voting systems.
I was invited to join the advisory board by Marcus Colacino, the enterprise leader is Gustavo Gonçalves, who lives in Olinda, near Recife where Marcus used to organize book fairs and events there. The person in charge of development is Talles Augusto, he also created Pengcoin, cryptocurrency for charity. I'm not a programmer but I've read the White Paper and if I understood correctly Vibook will use features from Pivx, Digibyte and Dash open source blockchain platforms.
I haven't met personally neither Gustavo or Talles, but I know Marcus for a long time ago, since the MetaReciclagem project in the beggining of the internet. Thank you very much for the invitation and the opportunity to help this great idea happen. Creative, content production and distribution, sharing, creative and collaborative economies, all that are areas of my concern and it will be my pleasure to work togheter. Just taking on my role of Vibbok's advisor, here I share some directions and inspirations.
Authorship Record
I agree that blockchain technology fits almost perfect to record, register and track the books and e-books created. Today, the effort to organize and list the huge literary production is already advanced, made real in the near magical number of the ISBN (International Standard Book Number). I remember an old Jeff Bezzos interview when he said that ISBN was one important reason he chose to start Amazon selling books, this record helped to locate the product available on the publishers stocks and offering it to sell on the internet (a new thing at that time). I must confess that I should study more the system that Vibook would addopt but I found the ISCC (https://iscc.codes) - International Standart Content Code - that wants to unify the digital information codes that are different to books, magazines, movies and music.
Accordingly Bitcoin.com, in June last year the Autorship (https://authorship.com) was launched. Using the ATS, an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum technology, in the Autorship blockchain book publishing system the authors are rewarded with ATS tokens in exchange to book sales, while readers are able to spend ATS tokens in order to purchase it. In the Waves blockchain platform, the Deponent (https://deponent.io/en) (wich focuses in legal protection against piracy) was announced yesterday as one of the 10 projects selected to receive crypto investments from Waves Labs.
Authors and Readers Social Media
Another good inspirations to follow are the book authors and readers, maybe the most popular is Goodreads (in my user page there https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8613848-wagner you can see the books that I read, want to or I'm actual reading), lauched in 2006 and bought by Amazon in 2013. In Brazil the similar Skoob has also many users. Recently I found Wattpad (https://www.wattpad.com), self defined as a social storytelling platform, accordingly this The Economist article it has 70m active users and has plan to go phisical: Wattpad, an online reading room, wants to print books. A couple of years ago Brazilian steemian @dudutaulois tried to integrate his website Scribe with the @steevescribe account as an option to monetize content. He lauched the website in 2014 as an open space to writers with a micropayment experiment where the participants could be rewarded. In my research I also found this interesting white paper - Blockchain for Books - proposed by ALLi - Alliance of Independent Authors with mentions Publica.com. ALLi supports blockchain technology and proposes the Self-Publishing 3.0 while Publica launched the concept of Book ICO.
Collaborative writing, Co-Creation and Fanfics
Last year the The Magic Frog (@the-magic-frog) project was launched here on Steem blockchain and even gained the portuguese version @sapo-magico supported by our @brazilians community. I believe this kind of collaborative content creation can be a inspiration for the Vibook project also. Recently a collaborative writing group that publishes books on Amazon.com introduced the @steemfiction.
This new way of literature creation got strenght with the rise of social media websites and apps, the bestseller 50 Shades of Gray itself owes a lot from fanfics groups and foruns spread on the internet. On this article published by Forbes - Fifty Shades Of Green: How Fanfiction Went From Dirty Little Secret To Money Machine - we can have an idea about this new editorial process. Get Inkspired is one of many fanfic websites that can point how all this collaboration can evolve.
Beyond the topics above I would include the crowdfunding, printing on demand and bookcrossing and book donations in the many ways that the Vibook project can contribute, since it has sinnergy with the blockchain development schedule and strategy. Starting with this post, my idea is continue publishing about these subjects, sharing and recording here in the Steem blockchain my contributions to the advisory board, since the info was considered not confidential, authorized and disclosed by the project's executive team.
I also want to fill the opportunity as a savvy Steem blockchain user and a fresh member of the Vibook advisory board to try integrating the both projects and its cryptocurrencies. I'm not sure how to do it but for start I'll save 90% of the liquid rewards from this post to future use in hybrid promotions. Maybe things like @dbooks.org or the GoodBook (https://goodbook.reviews) proposed by @sambillingham last year, or @steembookx. Or even promoting or rewarding tags like #books or #bookchallenge, I'm open to suggestions and ideas!
Thank you very much and good luck again!
Photo: Pedro Cambra, available under Creative Commons license on Flickr. Image edited and shared on Canva.com
90% of the liquid rewards from this post will be saved to promote Vibook (http://www.vibook.io) on Steem blockchain.
10% of all liquid rewards from this post will be automatic donated to @brazilians using the rewards beneficiary feature available on @steeveapp
Versão original em português: Vibook, projeto em blockchain com criptomoedas brasileiro - onde participo do conselho consultivo - quer unir autores, leitores e resenhistas de livros e ebooks
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