How exactly can we have a crypto-powered bookstore? Well, it's simple, you see this account is going to be one of our ways of raising capital in our quest to have a brick and mortar store! Once we have a brick and mortar, we plan on accepting various types of cryptocurrencies as payment for books and delivery. If it goes really well, we might look at getting into epublishing and featuring authors from steemit as part of our regular stable. In fact, now that I think about it, that part might come sooner rather than later!
We are @prairiepinner and
@mwoodall, a husband and wife team in the province of Saskatchewan, smack dab in the middle of Canada. Right now , we operate a book booth at a regular market in the city, but our dream is to be able to own and operate a brick and mortar store and to be able to share our love of books with people from all around the world.
You might think so, wouldn't you? New technology like crypto and blockchain combining with old technology like books...that's just not something you'd seriously consider. The truth is that we believe cryptocurrencies have the potential for serious change in the world around us, and that we are at the cusp of another technological revolution, not unlike the one that happened after Gutenberg's printing press.
This is not our bookstore, but we do want people to be this comfortable in it!
We know that we will never be able to compete with major companies on price, but we strongly believe that there is a place in business for a bookstore staffed with people who genuinely know and love books. Our goal is to be able to point you to your next great read, or favourite author, even before you know you're looking for one. We want our employees to have read every book that interests them, and maybe even a few that don't...and we want to have time to do the same!
That's great! We would love to have you join our community. If you want to support us, you can resteem and upvote our posts. If you've found a great author that you think we should know about, let us know! If you are an author (aspiring or otherwise), let us know and we will come and take a look at your work! Once have figured out the whole epublishing thing, we might even look at becoming publishers and helping you publish your work!
Well, our crypto adventure begins today. We would like to see what comes next for us, and how this experiment will work out! We will be out trolling steemit for great authors and content to add to our virtual shelves. Our first goal will be raising enough money to build up our stock and maybe get in with some of the major publishing houses as a distributor for first-run books. But, we need money to invest in order to do that. We hope that you'll join us along the way and enjoy the journey alongside us!