Guillermo from the Book.io team joins me to give us a big round-up and technical update on everything that is happening in the Boo.io ecosystem. We talk about the ideas and goals of the project, the current progress thus far and new upcoming features such as easy onboarding of users, mint on demand and much more.

If you're going to BookCon, let me know how it is.
https://bookcon.book.io/

You can find the white paper at:
https://book-io.medium.com/book-io-whitepaper-2-0-b7b3061693ce

If you want to earn more $book tokens, you can delegate to their stake pool. Search for the pool ticker BOOK. 
https://book.io/stakepool/


Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:42 How did you get into Cardano
10:52 Recap: What is Book.io
14:08 Trustlessness of Book.io
15:47 Banned books
20:37 Progress Thus far with Book.io
22:14 BookCon 2024
23:42 Moving compete with existing digital book platforms
25:07 Bringing in more books
27:53 Mint on Demand
29:00 Easier user experience
31:07 How many titles does Ingram have?
33:48 Ingram is the largest book printer in the world with print on demand
35:43 Stats and Analytics through book.io
37:24 Royalties for authors
38:42 Publisher analytics
40:05 Authors engaging with their readers
41:35 Tech updates: Mint on demand
45:15 When
49:18 Direct Fiat Payments
54:34 Post ITO and Book.io Stake Pool
56:54 Launch of read to earn
1:01:35 Final alpha