Publica provides both a platform to fund your project, and distributes your book to your community in a Publica e-reader wallet.
The American bestselling author Matthew Nomadic Matt Kepnes will be running the first book ICO in history for his upcoming book Backpackers Guide to Europe. starting 6th of May.Open the Book ICO page
At Sony he managed teams building two Olympics broadcast centers for CBS, several Jumbotron control rooms including New York Times Square, and innovative entertainment and interactive television systems for Celebrity Cruises cyberships.
Meet Publica in London at the London Book Fair 2018 on April 10-12. See a full list of events Publica is participating in at the London Book Fairhere.
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Antons comes from a technology background. His father made the first-ever dial-up connection in his country in 1986. Antons learned to code at 14 and won top places in Math Olympiads on the national level. He earned a Bachelor degree in Business Administration at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, a top-20 business school and started Master of Science at the IT University of Copenhagen.
Benefits of A Book ICO For An Author
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A bestselling author, entrepreneur, and film director Michael Covelhosted Josef Marc on Trend Following Radio.
Publishers Weekly featured Publica in their article about blockchain for the publishing industry. Read the articlehere
Publica is nominated for Quantum Innovation Award
Watch another episode form the CEO answering authors questions series with Josef Marc and Sukhi Jutla.
Publica presented its e-reader app and showcasing Blockchains best features inthe videoproduced by Cryptonauts channel.
Exposure to rapidly growing cryptocurrency markets. Book tokens are sold for platform money-exchangeable cryptocurrency.
To lend or gift a book to a friend you simply transfer the token of the book from one wallet to another.
Register now and be among the first authors to publish on the blockchain. We will notify you as the platform goes live.
Clear record of financial interest, sales, author and third party interest.
Your book now is a token that governs access to it. Millions of people trade tokens, gifts or transfer them to friends or needing libraries.
Publica released theweb store, it is now possible to buy a book using the web interface.
Watch our latest Ask-Me-Anything session with Josef Marc, Bland McCartha, and community manager Dante.Watch here
Integrate your publishing team in the smart contrast that will automate the payout.
Antons Sapriko, the COO of Publica, will speak about the First Blockchain for Publishing atChaingesconference in Amsterdam on May 4-5. Come to watch!
A Book ICO allows authors to pre-sell copies of their upcoming works as readable tokens.
Publicas CEO JosefMarc posted a second part of A Better Bookstore on our blog. Read the posthere.
Automated distribution of ebooks to Publica e-reader wallets.
To lend or gift a book to a friend you simply transfer the token of the book from one wallet to another.
In the first video of the series Publica founders Josef Marc (CEO), Antons Sapriko (COO) and Yuri Pimenov (CTO) will share their story and reveal how the idea of Publica was conceived.
Publicase-reader app for iOS devicesis released and is available to everyone on App Store
Smart contract that sells your books is written in an immutable, decentralised blockchain, nobody can shut it down.
Token exchanges will use smart contacts to apportion part of the resale price of the book to an author.
Publicas team members visited Hong Kong to attend a major blockchain and cryptocurrency conference in Asia Token2049! Read more about this event in ourweekly report.
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Your book now is a token that governs access to it. Millions of people trade tokens, gifts or transfer them to friends or needing libraries.
Publica is listed on IDEX decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. PBL/ETH pairs are available.Trade here.
Publicas e-reader app for Android is released and is available to everyoneon Play Store
Blockchains do not have geofencing. Publica is available worldwide without limits.
By doing so, authors are able to activate and reward their early supporters, receive the funds needed to finish their works, and tap into the power of the blockchain.
Blockchains do not have geofencing. Publica is available worldwide without limits.
Participate in ourgiveaway campaignto win free tickets to Chainges Blockchain conference in Amsterdam.
The First BOOK ICO in history ran by Matthew Nomadic Matt Kepnes is now launched on Publica platform. Take part and find out morehere.
Antons grew a company of two people to a hundred times that size and an industry leader serving the very top retail companies. Publica benefits from Antons experience in setting up workflows for enterprise-grade delivery to Walmart, Jaguar, Land Rover, The New York Times, Peugeot and many other brands and startups since 2003.
Automated distribution of ebooks to Publica e-reader wallets.
By doing so, authors are able to activate and reward their early supporters, receive the funds needed to finish their works, and tap into the power of the blockchain.
Smart contract that sells your books is written in an immutable, decentralised blockchain, nobody can shut it down.
Taking a look back at IBPA Publishing University conference in Austin, Texas. Watch our CEOs reactionhere
A pioneer in Bitcoin trading technology and systems, Yuri Pimenov knows the blockchain revolution extremely well. His experience as the head of research & development for Latvias top brand and most popular website besides Google led him through the technical challenges in machine learning, robotics, and high-load Internet technologies. Yuri is one of the few industry professionals who can be counted on to connect a grand vision with a real-life technical solution.
Integrate your publishing team in the smart contrast that will automate the payout.
Tokenisation of the book creates vested interest among your readers, who are holders of a tradable token now.
Publicas CEO and community managers will answer readers questions in an Ask-me-Anything session. Got questions? Feel free to askhere.
Publica provides both a platform to fund your project, and distributes your book to your community in a Publica e-reader wallet.
Watch a recording of the panel discussion about Blockchain for Books at the London Book Fair.Watch here
We started the Publica platform to help authors tap potential of the blockchain.Publica Team
Use proceeds to finish your book. When finished it will be published automatically to the blockchain and accessible to anyone holding your tokens.
Token exchanges will use smart contacts to apportion part of the resale price of the book to an author.
As an author and entrepreneur, I am always looking for new ways to reach my readers. The blockchain allows authors an unprecedented and original way to crowdfund and distribute their books.
Publica will be available on Cryptology exchange for trading from April 10.Read announcement
Josefs first career was in music and thats when he first learned how publishing and self-publishing work. He and a partner wrote, recorded, printed, sold and shipped their own music on vinyl records until the manager of The Police, a superstar group, signed them to a publishing deal for his company.
Publica is going to participate at the IBPA Publishing University in Austin, Texas on April 6-7. Meet Publicas CEO Josef Marc at Get to Know Your Publishing University Sponsors session.
The first book ico with a big name author
Exposure to rapidly growing cryptocurrency markets. Book tokens are sold for platform money-exchangeable cryptocurrency.
Clear record of financial interest, sales, author and third party interest.
Kristin Over-Rein from BoldBooksexplains in her articlehow Publica can add value to the book publishing process, and contribute to new business models for independent authors.
Josef Marc leads the Publica team. Previous teams he was leading are DirecTV, Verizon FIOS TV, Archimedia Technology, acquired by GrayMeta. At Front Porch Digital, acquired by Oracle, he designed systems and operations that preserved and made digitally accessible the ten-year videotaped history of the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. His first technology job was in a startup that was acquired by Sony to form its broadcast systems integration company in what the media calls an aquihire today.
Author-centric peer-to-peer financial relations between authors and your supporters.
Be among the first to publish on the blockchain
Author-centric peer-to-peer financial relations between authors and your supporters.
Im looking forward to embracing blockchain for books and Publica is the leading platform to do this with.
Tokenisation of the book creates vested interest among your readers, who are holders of a tradable token now.
Yuri is a longtime contributor to the blockchain community with his blog and his Russian translation of the seminal book Mastering Blockchain by Andreas Antonopoulos. Before Publica, he was the CTO of a leading Bitcoin exchange. Other work experience includes peer-to-peer lending platform development, a national email server, automated magazine publishing, and Internet radio.
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