You're right, there are many projects looking at books and art. SingularDTV is a good example of art funding, Kickico is a good example of kickstarting art, po.et does intellectual property registration, Authorship does translations, and ETHbooks does ebooks about crypto. So we have many fellow travelers.
Publica tackles the heart of what happened when digital books were invented -- the digital rights management sytems (DRM) and the End User License Agreement (EULA). Those were devised by iTunes and Kindle specifically to deal with a thorny problem -- copyright law. It's so easy to copy digital books. So they borrowed a page from Microsoft DRM and video games developers, namely, the EULA. That's an agreement between the "buyer" and seller, and if you read one, it says that no "buy" has taken place. Only a private agreement, and therefore not subject to copyright law. This worked well in the beginning.
But people think "buy" means I own it. I should be able to give a great book to my friend. Buy my child's university books for them. Gift 100 books to a deserving school in Tanzania (I lived there once.) Lend a digital book to a friend and they can give it back to me when they're done. Send a digital book to my friend in Lima who doesn't have a credit card and can't get an Amazon account. Sell my own books for USA prices in USA and Java prices in Java. None of those are possible with DRM and EULA's, unfortunately.
So we fixed it.
Buy a READ token to a book, and it goes in your wallet. Nobody can dispute that you own it.
The money you paid for that book goes right into the author's wallet, now. No dispute about royalties, overseas "charges," whatever. Author Paid Now.
Sell the book you bought, when you want. Crypto. Buy 1,000 copies of its READ token and open a bookstore where you know there's a market for it.

You get the idea. It's the blockchain evolution.

"promising..." I think that means we made a big promise to our supporters. Fortunately for us, we can and will deliver. Smart contracts already on github, authors already onboard, investors asking how to invest more. It's on us now.

Our community channel is discussing your question about listings with our COO Antons Sapriko, see Telegram channel https://t.me/publicaofficial.
He published an ICO report on our Medium blog https://medium.com/publicaio
I'll be blogging there about our progress in the publishing community. Antons is in charge of the day-to-day communications with our Telegram community.
I'll keep an eye out here on bitcointalk, of course. But frankly, I'm only a CEO and bitcointalk newbie so I might not be the person you want some of the time, so there's always info@publica.io to answer your questions.

To the bitcointalk community -- How can I help you now that the ICO is closed?

Our ICO raised $1M nominal. 25% came from early supporters who knew about the project. A couple weeks went by while people talked about it. Then, on Wednesday, the remaining 75% sold out in just over two hours. The supporters are the best, and you can talk to them and learn all about it on our Telegram channel https://t.me/publicaofficial

Publica's ICO just closed a few minutes ago!!! -- Successful Hard Cap! -- -- Thanks to straight-ahead grassroots community support. Great community!

Thanks! And if you'd like to see us present it in person, we're at d10e congress in Davos Switzerland right now because we're in the ICO Pitch competition tomorrow. They're filming so when I see the link I'll post it back here.

If you write to info@publica.io the team will return to you a personalized bounty link including the incentives. If you have any trouble, ping us back here on bitcointalk and we'll sort it out. Thanks,

HI Among, If you write to info@publica.io the team will return to you a personalized bounty link. If you have any trouble, ping me back here on bitcointalk and we'll sort it out. Thanks,

We're minting the PBL (Pebbles) Tokens on Ethereum, ERC20, for this ICO we have underway now. We've been experimenting with others for the READ Tokens too, because the point of the Publica platform is to be a non-stop engine for Book ICO's. No problem with ERC20 for READ Tokens, but we'd like to know that we have options and we'd like to know how different platforms behave. Ebooks have interesting properties of their own, so we're testing IPFS for storage. We've got test beds here.

Thanks, Mang86! I don't know how a hype-score happens but we're surely trying not to hype Publica. We're trying to explain it as we best understand it. I suppose some hype-score is due to our delegating some publicity tasks and ad-people naturally assume that hype-y words breed excitement. Anyway, I'm not a marketer so I'll just trust the pros. I appeared on the BadCrypto podcast because the hosts are authors and we got along great. We hear from our Telegram community that many people are joining in and supporting us because of that podcast. You can hear in my voice how we feel about this project. So now we're doing another couple videos, signed up to the Ethereum Davos conference to meet people, signed up to announce the Publica project to the booksellers world at FutureBook Conference on December 1. Trying to be as real and transparent as we can. We have a pretty big team working on Publica and everybody but me is either an ecommerce site developer, mobile app developer, or UI/UX FE/BE designer. I'm on the project because I worked on books all my life, all the odd jobs, and I have friends who're helping us with understanding the nitty gritty details of how the biz works around the world.
Here's something I say to them often, and does this sound like hype? Because it's not, it's what we really talk about around here when we're talking about decentralization and tokenization. "What happens if we reinvent Gutenberg's press for the blockchain? Or -- What if we DON'T?" That can sound hype-y but if you really ponder it, it's pretty real.
Cheers,
Josef

If you want to talk to us about Davos or Tokenization of Publishing on another board, our group discussion on Telegram is pretty active too - search Telegram for Publica ICO

That negative-trust you saw is probably just the ANNCMT, because that's not a person. We're the people and we're real, we're here. I understand why you fear scams but this is not one of them. Here's my LinkedIn page, I hope you can see that scams are no part of my life. www.linkedin.com/in/josefmarc

Sure! I'll keep it simple, ask me if I can explain further.

November 1 to December 1 -- ICO crowdsale is open. Presale is open now. We'll mint the PBL Tokens right after December 1.

It's not a 5 year project, it's a right-now project. Maybe you saw a reference to a five years lock on 20% of PBL. Those aren't the PBL sold in the ICO! That's just in case the project needs them for something we can't predict today. But it won't take five years to see Publica in action. In fact,

The ICO ends December 1 and that directs our budget, effectively tells us what the community wants us to do. In December we'll put the system online in UX demo mode for user feedback. The Publica platform is for authors and readers who probably aren't familiar with Ethereum, so we have to make that a seamless UX.

The ICO soft cap, $1M, is for the first half of 2018. We'll put the PBL Exchange live, ereader app-wallets on app stores, Book ICO website templates for authors online, and their READ Tokens in smart contracts on Ethereum.

The ICO Milestone figure, $3M, isn't a cap. It's for the second half of 2018, so we can develop the RIGHTS Token system. That's mostly the legal framework for it. RIGHTS Tokens are the logical followup to the READ Tokens so that authors and PBL owners can take advantage of derivative rights like movies, games, merchandise, etc.

The ICO hard cap, $5M, is all the PBL we'll sell in the crowdsale. That budget is for 2019 and making the project famous around the world, beyond the fans of cryptocurrencies and tokenization.

Is that a better explanation?

We won't keep the ICO open to reach a number. We have to close it so we can mint the PBL and distribute them to their owners. Good question, though.