New Choices in Web3 Publishing
New publishing platforms and the latest news on Wordler Village
Earlier this year, the NFT bubble popped, as many of us expected it would, as the dot-com bubble popped back in the 1990s. And as happened back then, those of us who remain will be able to pick up all the broken toys and repurpose them into tools and building blocks for useful innovation. That includes book and story publishing on the Third Generation of the Web, a nascent Web3 Publishing industry.
New platforms are popping up all over the Web3 publishing landscape. This morning, I downloaded the Bookvolts app and now have a keen e-reader that detects the Bookvolts-issued Frankenstein NFT in my connected wallet, allowing access to a decentralized ePUB of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and some fun bonus material. Frankenstein is one of my favorite books, and I’ve had a literary crush on Mary Shelly since high school, when I determined that she far outclassed that rascally Percival Shelly but was born in the wrong century for me to meet her, except through her writing.
I had a great conversation this week with James at Bookvolts about what his company is doing, what I’ve been doing, and what the Web3 publishing space has been doing. The Bookvolts folks are on fire. If you have a traditionally published book, they’re a great venue for minting your First Blockchain Edition.
Then there's Moonpage, which launched this week and is also on fire. Their text-based minter has the slickest UX/UI interface I’ve yet seen in Web3 publishing. I jumped in, as I do, and published the Moonpage edition of “NIGHTvision”, the universe-expanding story that pushes the Wordler Village story sideways into previously uncharted territory.
Fitting the “NIGHTvision” theme, I’ve been publishing this story to as many blockchains through as many platforms as possible. But the Moonpage “NIGHTvision” is, for the first time ever, being offered through a Dutch auction format. I’m not sure exactly how it works except that the time is limited and the price actually goes down through the course of the auction.
Finally, I’m excited to report that the Wordler Village project itself has a minter under development. Ye Olde Wordler Village Minting Press will be one of the first project-specific Web3 publishing platforms, allowing access to a community holding Wordler Village Passports or Cryptoversal Passes.
Cryptoversal Passes are available now for WETH on OpenSea, for MATIC on Rarable, and for PAGE on the NFT Bookstore. Passports will be coming soon.
A Wordler Village Author’s Guide will collect the entire story so far, plus bonus content and over 40 variant covers, some common, some rare, and some unique.
There will be writing prompts. And if you’re on this mailing list, you may already hold at least one Wordlers story episode that will become a registered Co-Author License allowing personal and commercial IP rights within the wordlerPLEX story universe.
If you’re interested in providing early input into bringing the next phase of Wordler Village into the Web3 Publishing space, meet me in the Cryptoversal Web3 Publishing Discord.
https://discord.gg/aw3WJ8vW6K
It’s an exciting time, and I think it’s going to be a wild ride.
—Greg R. Fishbone, Wordler in Chief