Public Crypto BLOG: Gilgamesh - Knowledge Sharing Social Network Platform

Gilgamesh is a knowledge-sharing social platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain technology. The network shifts the way readers, critics, and authors communicate and connect with one another.

Using the Gilgamesh platform, users can gain and transfer knowledge in a protected environment that encourages widespread learning and education, and incentivizes the human race to become more thoughtful and information-centric.

Productive interactions and engagements on the Gilgamesh platform earn users GIL Tokens, on the Ethereum blockchain through smart contracts. They can spend GIL tokens on in-app goods and services, or to vote on the governance of the platform.

Gilgamesh Vision

The Gilgamesh platform is designed for avid readers, sometimes readers, and new readers. The goal is to create a social connection within a fair market economy that lets people create their own opportunities for success doing something they love in order to be happier, more intelligent people.

Gilagmesh Mission

To create a secure and engaging knowledge sharing social platform that helps readers connect socially with other readers and authors in a fun and interactive way and benefits readers, authors, and self-publishing service providers by removing the gatekeeping publishers from the book industry.

Problems

The graphic above identifies a key problem in book industry: the barriers of communication and access between authors, service providers, and readers as established by the publishing industry. In order to maintain control of the publishing process from beginning to end, it is imperative for publishers to keep the authors separated from the service providers, and control what books go to publication and how those books are marketed to the public.

Currently, there are no other applications available to the target market to connect and share that are specifically focused on reading. Instead, our market has relied on outdated platforms like Goodreads, or Facebook Groups. The market is ready for a social application designed to help readers share information while connecting with one another.

Books have been our main source of knowledge for thousands of years. However, with the advent of new technologies and the internet, there is no simple, meaningful, and productive platform that encourages book readers and authors to connect, engage, and gain knowledge. Instead, the market is full of stagnant and outdated platforms that no longer satisfy the demands of the book community.

Authors and readers are not connected
Readers can't socialize and share knowledge with other readers
Authors don't get real-time feedback and reviews of their books

Powerful publishing companies control the industry by limiting authors' ability to contribute to the market, earn a fair wage, and retain the rights to their work. By maintaining control of the industry, publishers ensure their position as an intermediary in most book publications and sales, and earn high commissions with minimal threat to their position in the publishing process.

In general, publishers are nothing more than middlemen infringing on authors' rights and taking advantage of the power they hold. The influence publishers have creates a barrier to communication and access among authors, publishing service providers, and readers.

Publishers hold all the monetary and legal power
Publishers prohibit open communication between authors and industry-based service providers
Self-publishing requires too much start up capital for most authors
Authors are leaving the market to earn a living wage in other industries

Solution

The Gilgamesh platform provides a unique, simple user experience that encourages readers to engage and connect with one another, consume more informative content, and gain knowledge. The platform is an open market for users to socialize; find, buy, review, and discuss books; and directly influence the publishing industry. Authors will be able to publish their work through service providers and receive the full financial benefit of their sales on the platform, which will bring new authors into the market and influence the way people consume books.

Readers, critics, and authors can connect socially
The platform revitalizes the book industry and creates a friendly and fun environment for the book community
Gilgamesh removes the publisher as middleman; authors can purchase services from self-publishing service providers on the platform
Authors and service providers earn a fair, living wage for their sales and services
Users create their own opportunities for success and become happier, more intelligent people

The Gilgamesh self-publishing platform is a marketplace for industry-related service providers to advertise, gain new opportunities, and contribute to the success of an author or publication. Authors can browse the service providers by type, fee, or rating to identify recommended editors, printers, and distributors on the platform. They can directly hire service providers on the Gilgamesh platform and pay for services using GIL tokens.

Essentially, the self-publishing platform and marketplace removes the middleman (publishers) from the publishing process, creating an efficient and lucrative resource for authors who want to maintain control of their work. Service providers are charged a small fee based on the income they earn on the platform.

Authors can also use the self-publishing and social platform to create a secure eBook on IPFS & Ethereum smart contracts, register a copyright, or place an in-app advertisement.

Service providers are copywriters, copy editors, cover designers, illustrators, layout designers, printers, distributors, and marketers
The Gilgamesh platform is a secure resource for self-publishing an eBook, registering a copyright, or advertising a book to users
Authors will have full control of their work and will no longer have business partners
Authors will enjoy more freedom and a higher income, resulting in more books getting published

Gilgamesh Token

The Gilgamesh platform will introduce a standard ERC20 token - GIL token, which is based on the Ethereum smart contract that incentivizes participation on the platform. GIL token is a utility token meant to be used on Gilgamesh platform. Specifically, it rewards users for meaningful engagements that help grow the platform, such as writing a book review, and can only be purchased from the Gilgamesh platform during the token sale.

How to earn GIL :