TKC 526 Blockchain Bookseller Josef Marc

The Kindle Chronicles

CEO of Publica

Interview starts at 7:05 and ends at 42:10

“So a book token in our eReader app is going to be used as part of the cryptographic protection of the book to authorize you to read it by proving that you bought it. There’s another token that we made called the Pebble (PBL). It’s a ticker on exchanges, and if you want to go looking for what the Pebble is doing in the world you would look for the PBL ticker. It’s a token, but it only works as money. It’s not specific to a single book.”

News

“E Ink starts shipping advanced color epaper” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E Reader - August 28, 2018

“Sears’ stock soars as ship-to-store tire deal with Amazon expanded nationwide” by Tomi Kilgore at MarketWatch - August 29, 2018

“New Amazon Go Store Shrinks In Size, A Sign of Hope for Competitors” by Chris Walton at Forbes - August 28, 2018

Tech Tip

“Literary Clock Made from E-Reader” by tjaap at Instructables, reported on at Gizmodo

Interview with Josef Marc

Publica

Ethereum Project

Morgan James Publishing

Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad at the Publica Store - available for PBL 9.29

Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau at Publica Store - available for PBL 5.25

Publica Book Catalog

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

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