Book NFTs

Think of a signed, numbered print of a book, except the certificate lives on a public blockchain instead of a slip of paper. You pay to mint one copy of a limited run. That copy is yours. While you hold it, you can open the read-only eBook on our site. If you give or sell the copy, reading access moves with it.

No. You need a browser wallet (we suggest MetaMask or a similar injected wallet), a little of the network’s currency for the mint price and network fee, and the same comfort you would need to confirm a card payment. The blockchain is the ledger in the background. You do not need to run a node or write code.

A blockchain wallet is an app (browser extension or phone) that holds your address and lets you approve transactions. It is closer to a key ring than to a bank account. The Book NFT is sent to that address. Keep the wallet’s recovery phrase private; anyone who has it can move your edition.

You receive one ERC-721 token from that book’s collection, for example BOOK #12. The token is the collectible. It is recorded on the chain, visible in your wallet, and usable on marketplaces that support the collection. It is not a substitute for copyright, and it is not an unlimited PDF you can post publicly. The eBook is unlocked for the wallet that currently owns the token.

Open the book’s page on our minting site and connect the wallet that holds the edition. We check on-chain whether that address owns at least one token from the collection (token-gating). If it does, the read-only viewer opens. You do not create a separate White Falcon login for this. If you no longer hold the token, access stops.

Each title is an editions collection: one book, a fixed number of identical numbered copies. The edition size is set when the collection is issued (for example 100). Once that number is minted, no more public copies of that run are created. That is what makes it a limited edition rather than a file anyone can copy.

An ordinary eBook is usually a licence in a store account. If the store closes or the account is locked, the file can disappear. A Book NFT is a numbered item you hold. Supply is public. You can keep it, gift it, or sell it. The next owner inherits both the collectible and the reading access.

The first purchase (the mint) is the primary sale. That mint price is split as configured for the title. The author receives 80% of the primary mint share, paid to the author’s wallet.

If you later sell or transfer the edition on a marketplace, that is a secondary sale. A royalty is taken from that resale. The secondary sales royalty percentage is capped to 10% (as required by most NFT platforms for listing). ERC-721C enforced royalties keep compliant marketplaces from skipping the fee.

Many marketplaces treat creator royalties as optional. Book NFT collections use ERC-721C enforced royalties (creator-fee enforcement). The contract is set so that transfers through venues that refuse to pay the royalty are blocked. Compatible markets (including OpenSea and Magic Eden where this mechanism is supported) honour the fee. The author’s share of that royalty is paid to the author’s wallet.

Enforcement can reduce where the token can be listed, because venues that ignore royalties cannot complete the transfer. That trade-off is intentional: it keeps the author’s resale royalty attached to the edition.

Ownership of the token moves to the new wallet. Reading access follows that wallet. On a sale through an enforced marketplace, the author’s royalty is paid automatically as described above. A wallet-to-wallet gift between two people (not through a marketplace) is still a transfer of the collectible and of eBook access.

No. You own that numbered edition and the right to read the gated eBook while you hold the token. Copyright and commercial rights stay with the author or rights holder unless a title says otherwise in its terms.

Each collection is issued on a specific network (for example Polygon for live titles, or Sepolia while we test). The mint page asks your wallet to switch to the correct network. You need a small amount of that network’s currency to pay the mint price and the network fee.

Install a wallet, open the NFT books page, choose a title, connect, and mint one edition. When the transaction confirms, use the same wallet on that title’s eBook page to read.

This page provides a description of the Book NFT and the benefits associated with it. A Book NFT is a limited-edition digital book collectible that may provide access to the corresponding digital edition.

The Book NFT is offered as a promotional and collectable digital benefit. It is not intended to function as a payment method or money, and it has no cash value except for any specific redemption benefit expressly described by the publisher. It may be used only in accordance with the terms stated on this page and may not be exchanged for cash.

Before minting or purchasing, please make sure you understand the wallet you use, the blockchain network, transaction and network fees, and the applicable redemption, access, expiry, transfer, and technical terms. Ownership of the Book NFT does not by itself transfer copyright or other intellectual-property rights in the book. Rules may differ depending on where you live. If you are unsure about the terms or implications of minting or purchasing, please obtain independent professional advice before proceeding.