[ANN] [ICO] Publica - Blockchain revolution for the publishing economy

[PublicaIO]

Why books?

Publica aims to improve publishing for the blockchain revolution.

This is an excerpt from a Q&A with CEO Josef Marc: https://medium.com/publicaio/why-books-d55eceb6e76c

[Wasimalik]

reserving urdu translations

[elegant_joylin]

When is the pre-ico? Is there a minimum as well?

[srj087]

Aren't you going to start a reward? The popularity of coins and the market are still important, and most teams will be very active in social software such as the community, Facebook and so on

[PublicaIO]

Introducing Publica's advisor Sheron Wood McCartha.



Author of ten science fiction novels. As a self-taught self-publisher and CEO of Digital Imagination Publishing, Sheron studies the effects of disintermediation in traditional publishing.

Sheron on Publica:

"It needs to be a community, where authors can get questions answered, make profitable transactions, and develop connections that satisfy their own individual goals, however great or small. My vision of Publica is that".

[123ltg]

social media bounty link?

[hirokazu]

social media bounty link?

Bounty program still not started yet, he said it will start in a few days. Hopefully this project is real, not a joke like Lust or Karbon that's only want to get fast money with several scam trick.

[PublicaIO]

Is there any plans that the project will have bounties in the future?
I still can't find anything related to it here in the thread.

Hello! We can offer you a bounty for translation of our website and Bitcointalk thread. Please PM if you are interested.

[PublicaIO]

When is the pre-ico? Is there a minimum as well?

Hello, elegant_joylin!

Pre-ico opens on October 19. You can get your token pre-sale invite here: https://publica.io (by submitting your e-mail address). We plan to send pre-sale reminder a week before that and when pre-sale will start you will get an email with unique link that will lead to the page with instructions on how to participate in the ICO.

We have hard limit in USD, that is $51m for ICO and pre-sale combined.

[dave111223]

Publica

Blockchain revolution for the publishing economy
Decentralized publishing platform removes intermediaries

WEBSITE · WHITEPAPER · BLOG · TWITTER · FACEBOOK · REDDIT · SLACK

Crowdsale starts on October 15

Do you believe that:

• Electronic books will eclipse paper books sooner or later?
• Self-publishing will eclipse traditional publishing?
• Crowdfunding competes with traditional financing?
• Peer-to-peer transactions like Bitcoin and Ethereum disrupt traditional monetary relations with their smart contracts and tokenization?
• Publishing is a global economy?

That’s Publica.

Just a bit more?

Publica will fuel an ecosystem of the third parties necessary to publish and promote high-quality and high-value books-editors, cover artists, illustrators, marketers and so on. By backing their ecommerce transactions on the blockchain Publica will bring trust and liquidity to the ecosystem. Peer-to-peer.

To ignite the ecosystem, Publica is a platform for authors to offer their own token launches for their new books (crowdfunding). Each token sold in a book's token launch represents READ access to the book in an e-reader.

Authors will be able to set their own advance payments for their books negotiated with their fans and institutional backers. They’ll retain creative and financial freedom while having the means to remain independent.

Publica will establish the legal and technical framework for the tokenization of intellectual property rights. Instead of awarding up to 90% of their royalties to a single publisher, an author can decentralize ownership, thereby attracting investors and fueling an ecosystem for the book's success.

Interested? Read all about it!

Key Dates

ICO Structure

Token Distribution

PBL tokens will be available for purchase on Pre-Sale starting on October 19, 2017 and during the Public Sale from October 25 to November 15, 2017

• 51% sold in the token sale

• 25% for distribution to incentivize the ecosystem

• 20% retained by Publica and locked for 5 years

• 2% bounty program distribution

• 2% to cover an ICO

PBL TOKEN Is a private money with a fixed and locked supply, which is the only means of payment accepted within Publica ecosystem for goods and services traded there by its participants.

TOTAL SUPPLY: 1 billion
SYMBOL: PBL
INITIAL RATE: USD 0.10 per one PBL token

Our Team

Download White Paper

Articles

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Visit Publica.io

[Casatokuser]

As an author of both self-published and published books, this project sounds very interesting to me.
One of the biggest issues will be to reach the mass market of readers.
Today the competition on the book market grows harder and harder,
meaning Publica should invest a certain effort in marketing as well (if not the main part of raised money).
And I cannot recognize how you took this into account.
How much you will spend for this?

[media_guru]

Added your project to the best russian ICO calendar http://icodaily.ru/ico-calendar-items/publica/
We wish you to achieve the maximum goal 

[boyprodn]

Please give me your website code for translation

[cryptoworldwide]

Waiting for social media bounty campaign

[PublicaIO]

Added your project to the best russian ICO calendar http://icodaily.ru/ico-calendar-items/publica/
We wish you to achieve the maximum goal 

Thank you for support!

[Casatokuser]

Karbon website is not reachable anymore!
It was indeed scam. 
What the f*** is wrong with these guys?!
I did not invest, but they made 500,000 $ with that.
Regulations are obviously needed, as any other who takes it serious and want to
realize great projects might become also suspicious.

100 million won't be so much if you take marketing costs into account.

But Publica, a more precise answer is up to you!

[PublicaIO]

As an author of both self-published and published books, this project sounds very interesting to me.
One of the biggest issues will be to reach the mass market of readers.
Today the competition on the book market grows harder and harder,
meaning Publica should invest a certain effort in marketing as well (if not the main part of raised money).
And I cannot recognize how you took this into account.
How much you will spend for this?

Hello! Here's an answer from our CEO:

We agree with you completely. As an author myself, I know the feeling whenever I close my word processor file of the book I'm currently writing because I have to go deal with publicity for my previous book. It hurts me inside because I want to keep working on my new book instead! Conversely, when I leave the marketing stuff to sneak back to writing my book-in-progress, I feel like I'm abandoning my other baby, the one that needs publicity now!

Sukhi Jutla of http://www.theauthorentrepreneurs.com/about and https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/ is working on a campaign that Orna Ross calls "Blockchain for Books" and she explained it nicely. She told me that competition is a fact of life now, forever irrevocable because online self-publishing erased the barrier to entry. You have to let the professionals do it, supported by the magic of the Internet, to bring books to the attention of the people who are hungry for them. Shouting over the din no longer works and never will again. That's also a lesson I learned from Seth Godin's wonderful books.

Publica.io website is, today, mostly about the blockchain startup process. After the ICO we'll make it more about the lives of books and the people who make them. Software and platform network effects are the wood and the sparks that will ignite the book-discovery that you, I, and our public advisors want so much (they're authors too).

For me, the best way to visualize it is to stare at what we call "the Publica circle." It takes a village. There's always commerce involved. Notice the upper half of that circle -- it's all about how readers find the books they crave.



Best regards,
Josef

[PublicaIO]

Karbon website is not reachable anymore!
It was indeed scam. 
What the f*** is wrong with these guys?!
I did not invest, but they made 500,000 $ with that.
Regulations are obviously needed, as any other who takes it serious and want to
realize great projects might become also suspicious.

100 million won't be so much if you take marketing costs into account.

But Publica, a more precise answer is up to you!

Hello! Publica isn't raising $100 million dollars. The ICO is capped at $51M. Detailed information can be found in our economics white paper (here: https://publica.io/whitepaper2.pdf).

Publica have trusted leaders and advisors with excellent reputation, you can find more information about the team here: https://publica.io/#leadership

[Legendari]

Hello, please tell me you plan bounty program signatures bitcointalk or Twitter?

[Use.Your.Brain]

Karbon website is not reachable anymore!
It was indeed scam. 
What the f*** is wrong with these guys?!
I did not invest, but they made 500,000 $ with that.
Regulations are obviously needed, as any other who takes it serious and want to
realize great projects might become also suspicious.

100 million won't be so much if you take marketing costs into account.

But Publica, a more precise answer is up to you!

Hello! Publica isn't raising $100 million dollars. The ICO is capped at $51M. Detailed information can be found in our economics white paper (here: https://publica.io/whitepaper2.pdf).

Publica have trusted leaders and advisors with excellent reputation, you can find more information about the team here: https://publica.io/#leadership

But the market cap will be $100m, right?

TOTAL SUPPLY: 1 billion
SYMBOL: PBL
INITIAL RATE: USD 0.10 per one PBL token