Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs
Lucy Knight,
The Guardian,
Aug 02, 2022
This is why people are so cynical about new technologies. Here's why Pearson plans to sell textbooks as non-fungible tokens (NFT): "In the analogue world, a Pearson textbook was resold up to seven times, and we would only participate in the first sale... technology like blockchain and NFTs allows us to participate in every sale of that particular item as it goes through its life." In other words - you can't sell your used textbook without giving a cut to Pearson. Here's a message to publishers: nobody wants a technology that allows you to control everything they own.
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