NFT Ebooks
Apr. 17th, 2023 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThe recent discussion about the attack on the Internet Archive and the nature of electronic reading material got me thinking. I wondered if there's a better way, so I went out and looked.
Non-fungible tokens are electronic files turned into specific, individual, trackable products which can be bought, sold, and traded. I wondered if this would work for ebooks, and yes it does. Here is a comprehensive guide to NFT ebooks, how to make them, and where to find them. These behave a lot more like paper books than the average ebook does. However, at present they are all tied up with cryptocurrency and its chaos, which is a lot better in concept than in execution. But the idea of object-like ebooks is out there, so folks could choose to develop this technology into a more stable and secure version based more on archiving information and circulating books than on trying to get rich quick.
And remember, if you don't like what other folks are doing in cyberspace, there's a Kickstarter project to support fans in making their own platforms and websites.
Non-fungible tokens are electronic files turned into specific, individual, trackable products which can be bought, sold, and traded. I wondered if this would work for ebooks, and yes it does. Here is a comprehensive guide to NFT ebooks, how to make them, and where to find them. These behave a lot more like paper books than the average ebook does. However, at present they are all tied up with cryptocurrency and its chaos, which is a lot better in concept than in execution. But the idea of object-like ebooks is out there, so folks could choose to develop this technology into a more stable and secure version based more on archiving information and circulating books than on trying to get rich quick.
And remember, if you don't like what other folks are doing in cyberspace, there's a Kickstarter project to support fans in making their own platforms and websites.