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Sorry to offer a bit of righteous anger this week. I was prepared to release another post about the exciting potential for art and technology to combine, but my phone buzzed itself and myself out of our respective sleep modes this morning with news that a multibillion-dollar company, to preserve its market share, would be taking money from creators’ pockets and food from the mouths of our children.The NewsFrom NFT Now:Today (Feburary 17, 2023), the world’s largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea, ma...
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Cryptoversal BooksMytho-Crypto 3.5: Feeling Overwhelmed?
Hello and welcome! I’m Greg, also known as Cryptoversal, and you’re reading the Mythoversal Cryptoversal Newsletter. You either subscribed or are receiving a forwarded copy from a friend—either way, I’m glad to have you in the Cryptoversal community.Too Much to LearnI was talking to an author this week who was making the shift from traditional publishing into Web3, and she was feeling overwhelmed with all that she needed to learn about formats, platforms, and file storage. Does it get easier ...
Cryptoversal BooksThe Mother of Mother’s Day Experiment Begins
Mother’s Day: The ExperimentIn traditional publishing, the book launch is an event that people react to—or not. Authors can (and should) build a marketing campaign to call people to the action of buying their book. The optimal reader journey is:get the book;read the book;leave a positive review; andanticipate the next book.Over the past two years, I’ve put a lot of thought into how to improve the traditional ebook experience in terms of ownership and utility. But I’ve put less thought into im...
Cryptoversal BooksMytho-Crypto 3.7: Is OpenSea a Criminal Enterprise?
Sorry to offer a bit of righteous anger this week. I was prepared to release another post about the exciting potential for art and technology to combine, but my phone buzzed itself and myself out of our respective sleep modes this morning with news that a multibillion-dollar company, to preserve its market share, would be taking money from creators’ pockets and food from the mouths of our children.The NewsFrom NFT Now:Today (Feburary 17, 2023), the world’s largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea, ma...
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Wow, what a week. Sometimes I feel like there’s too much to do and too many directions all tugging at once. Taking things day by day, I don’t have deadlines so much as obligations. Weekly Mytho-Crypto issues, monthly LitSpace sections in Vagobond Magazine, videos when I can, and writing when I can fit it in.
I’ve made some ambitious promises, and now I’m going to keep them. One of those is to release NFT editions of some classic books for which I dropped Book Tokens last year in the NFT Bookstore.
I love Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The book’s presentation is absolutely unique, the suspense is incredible, and the lore is a rich blend of folklore and invention that modern readers often take for granted.
Stoker was a forward-thinking genius who incorporated all media available to him in service of a single narrative that incorporated letters, telegrams, journals, newspaper clippings, and even early sound recordings. He wrote at the cutting edge of late 19th Century tech, and it’s easy for me to imagine he would have added generative AI artwork and smart contracts if he were publishing today.
There are many editions of Dracula out in the world already, even some on the blockchain. I own one on MoonRiver and know of one on Cardano. So the challenge for a Cryptoversal Dracula is not for it to be the first, but for it to be unique and special, while also establishing the form and format of upcoming titles in an ongoing series.
Meant to be looked at, this book will include beautifully rendered illustrations. Meant to be read, it will be laid out for an optimal reading experience. Meant to be collected and owned, it will have to be engineered to be a durable and ever-accessible heirloom for generations.
And since it’s from me, there will be a bit of whimsy in the illustrations.
The Cryptoversal Dracula will be the first of many masterpieces under the Cryptoversal Books imprint. The first edition, a super-rare five-copy Book Token edition, will not be sold but can be earned.
Last year, through the Lucky’s Literary Collection at the NFT Bookstore, I issued five Dracula Tokens. Three have been claimed. Two remain.
They can’t be bought. They are reserved for contributors to the “Be a Wordler” anthology of Wordler Village.
Ask me about it on the Discord or wherever Cryptovesal authors can be found.
Next week, remind me to tell you about the time I accidentally invented NFT book syndication. This week, check out the newest issue of Vagobond Magazine with the LitSpace section I edited on Literary NFTs.
https://opensea.io/assets/0x931204Fb8CEA7F7068995dcE924F0d76d571DF99/157
Pick up a copy of your own in the PageDAO collection, in the Readl Bookstore, on Wax, or for your Kindle if you must.
Follow me on Twitter or join my Discord to further the discussions.
--The Mythoversal Cryptoversal
The Cryptoversal Dracula - Three Book Tokens claimed through the Write to Earn program with two remaining.
Cryptoversal Video - Do you have an idea for a video on the Web3 publishing space? Let me know or pitch in to write a script.
News and reviews about Web3 publishing will be included in the LitSpace section of Vagobond Magazine.
Wordler Village? Yes, Wordler Village will be breaking new ground this summer. Look for sample chapters of the upcoming Samhain book in the Ink Block Literary NFT Sampler from Darkblock, the access protocol I’ll be using to gate the book’s content.
Did you miss the February snapshot for the Year in the Books collection? It’s still minting, and March’s snapshot has been set.
Wow, what a week. Sometimes I feel like there’s too much to do and too many directions all tugging at once. Taking things day by day, I don’t have deadlines so much as obligations. Weekly Mytho-Crypto issues, monthly LitSpace sections in Vagobond Magazine, videos when I can, and writing when I can fit it in.
I’ve made some ambitious promises, and now I’m going to keep them. One of those is to release NFT editions of some classic books for which I dropped Book Tokens last year in the NFT Bookstore.
I love Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The book’s presentation is absolutely unique, the suspense is incredible, and the lore is a rich blend of folklore and invention that modern readers often take for granted.
Stoker was a forward-thinking genius who incorporated all media available to him in service of a single narrative that incorporated letters, telegrams, journals, newspaper clippings, and even early sound recordings. He wrote at the cutting edge of late 19th Century tech, and it’s easy for me to imagine he would have added generative AI artwork and smart contracts if he were publishing today.
There are many editions of Dracula out in the world already, even some on the blockchain. I own one on MoonRiver and know of one on Cardano. So the challenge for a Cryptoversal Dracula is not for it to be the first, but for it to be unique and special, while also establishing the form and format of upcoming titles in an ongoing series.
Meant to be looked at, this book will include beautifully rendered illustrations. Meant to be read, it will be laid out for an optimal reading experience. Meant to be collected and owned, it will have to be engineered to be a durable and ever-accessible heirloom for generations.
And since it’s from me, there will be a bit of whimsy in the illustrations.
The Cryptoversal Dracula will be the first of many masterpieces under the Cryptoversal Books imprint. The first edition, a super-rare five-copy Book Token edition, will not be sold but can be earned.
Last year, through the Lucky’s Literary Collection at the NFT Bookstore, I issued five Dracula Tokens. Three have been claimed. Two remain.
They can’t be bought. They are reserved for contributors to the “Be a Wordler” anthology of Wordler Village.
Ask me about it on the Discord or wherever Cryptovesal authors can be found.
Next week, remind me to tell you about the time I accidentally invented NFT book syndication. This week, check out the newest issue of Vagobond Magazine with the LitSpace section I edited on Literary NFTs.
https://opensea.io/assets/0x931204Fb8CEA7F7068995dcE924F0d76d571DF99/157
Pick up a copy of your own in the PageDAO collection, in the Readl Bookstore, on Wax, or for your Kindle if you must.
Follow me on Twitter or join my Discord to further the discussions.
--The Mythoversal Cryptoversal
The Cryptoversal Dracula - Three Book Tokens claimed through the Write to Earn program with two remaining.
Cryptoversal Video - Do you have an idea for a video on the Web3 publishing space? Let me know or pitch in to write a script.
News and reviews about Web3 publishing will be included in the LitSpace section of Vagobond Magazine.
Wordler Village? Yes, Wordler Village will be breaking new ground this summer. Look for sample chapters of the upcoming Samhain book in the Ink Block Literary NFT Sampler from Darkblock, the access protocol I’ll be using to gate the book’s content.
Did you miss the February snapshot for the Year in the Books collection? It’s still minting, and March’s snapshot has been set.
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