Book as a Platform

Book as a Platform

The Platform is software by which users interact with the system to :

• create content, 

• generate knowledge maps, and 

• enable learning communities.

Book as storyteller

The author having written their book thoroughly still has much to explain.

With RAG-Ai, the author would chat with the book and ask it probing questions, thus the book could expand by Ai adding points raised during the conversation, asking it to restructure sections etc.

Book-pedia

All books are inter-connected at the level of web topic links, like a wikipedia, a book-pedia if you will.

A library full of books is emblematic of education, but, in our world, where the content is not pushed top-down by any institution such as state or religion etc., and organically sourced bottom-up.

When all course contents can be published through a single Notes creation tool :

• such content can be interlinked in a knowledge web,

• traversing which would be under the guidance of the GitC.

Each course could be located in its own domain, for which its contents from above Notes would be publishable as sub-folders of the  course's beautifully laid out website :

• thus giving a powerful seo capability for the whole site,

• while seamlessly navigating such a learning web even across these domains, 

  • e.g. a reference to songs in a movie lesson could lead to exploring a different course altogether in a different site.

Learning Web

Each educational topic (sub-, connected-) is organized into a Learning Web, like a distributed Wiki, across all Books.

The number of keywords used in common across them will be the key indicator of the emergence of a common narrative, hence a coherent Glossary will reflect the shared understanding of the knowledge of humanity.

Each topic is accompanied by a set of questions.

Each question has a set of plausible answers that have to be simply picked, or human-completed from an AI-generated snippet.

Questions can also be partially auto-generated, and require human completion to be included in the assessment.

GitC then helps users to progress towards short and long-term learning goals, and suggests adding new in-context content to our infinitely expanding learning web, but its retrieval has to be tuned and guard-railed to the user context to prevent hallucinations in the AI.

Learning Communities

The objective of a Book's author is to build their personal brand, and thereby influence communities with their perspective.

As book Writers build a following, their learning community consists of:

• Coaches who create derivative books, such as commentaries or guidance manuals, spawning their own coaching webs to guide community members, and

• Members who cultivate their personal lenses during their learning journey, by journaling their experiences as personal books in the story web.

Monetization Models

Of course, beyond the obvious monetization models of downloadable, and printable, here are couple more ideas.

Book Meetups

Meetups, beyond peer reading clubs, and anchored by the Book writer provide the next level of engagement for writers.

Book writers engage with their readers by allowing them to "book" time slots for the writer's attention, hence also an Appointment Book!

Booking of time slots set by Book writers indicate what kind of interaction they are willing to engage eg to teach, work, chat, or simply hang out. 

Embedded Artworks

Beyond just a pedantic work, books can also be made more artistic, enabling better storytelling.

Each section in a Book could contain high-quality snippets of some relevant original artistic works, from an auto-searched and human curated collection of works, from various artistic studios.

Clicking through these snippets, enables a great showcase of artist works in a novel, contextual format. 

Apart from purchasing the original physical works, the NFT's of these artworks can provide tracking for downstream digital licensing. 

Trusted artists, and artists from trusted studios, could bid for placement of their art images into each section of the book, thus this is an ArtSense market (like AdSense) but for curated art only, that is, humans are required in the loop. 

Meme Licensing

Snippets of Art and Text from the Books can be licensed and tracked as they get used in the meme complex.

They will be a culturally aware response to pernicious memetic viruses that have proliferated with malintent which will only increase with AI.

Memes based on original works of Art will also be beautiful, unlike most commercial illustrations.