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NFT eBooks Can Actually Be Pretty Cool BY WYATT BANDT
Love it or hate it, it didn’t take long for NFTs to make their way into publishing. The funny monkeys herald the new frontier: NFT eBooks. This new market provides exciting creative and financial opportunities for authors, while readers have a new way to read and get exclusive material found nowhere else. For the skeptics—and I was one of them—there are several things that make NFT eBooks stand out from regular eBooks. Despite a natural predilection toward disliking gambling, crypto, and reading digitally, there is something cool about NFT eBooks, or the good ones at least. For one, you actually own it. Not the copyright to the item, but the copy of the eBook. If you’re a reader, once you’re done with it, you can choose to sell it at a potential profit, all thanks to the way blockchain works. But this is the boring part.
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