Updates from Book.io: Changing Digital Publishing & Ownership
Guillermo from the Book.io team joins me to give us a big round-up and technical update on everything that is happening in the Boo.io ecosystem. We talk about the ideas and goals of the project, the current progress thus far and new upcoming features such as easy onboarding of users, mint on demand and much more.If you're going to BookCon, let me know how it is.https://bookcon.book.io/You can find the white paper at:https://book-io.medium.com/book-io-whitepaper-2-0-b7b3061693ceIf you want to earn more $book tokens, you can delegate to their stake pool. Search for the pool ticker BOOK. https://book.io/stakepool/Timestamps00:00 Intro02:42 How did you get into Cardano10:52 Recap: What is Book.io14:08 Trustlessness of Book.io15:47 Banned books20:37 Progress Thus far with Book.io22:14 BookCon 202423:42 Moving compete with existing digital book platforms25:07 Bringing in more books27:53 Mint on Demand29:00 Easier user experience31:07 How many titles does Ingram have?33:48 Ingram is the largest book printer in the world with print on demand35:43 Stats and Analytics through book.io37:24 Royalties for authors38:42 Publisher analytics40:05 Authors engaging with their readers41:35 Tech updates: Mint on demand45:15 When49:18 Direct Fiat Payments54:34 Post ITO and Book.io Stake Pool56:54 Launch of read to earn1:01:35 Final alpha