The dream of every man is to attain financial independence, a desire that has led many great men beyond their limits and has placed them at a height envied by all men. The world is ruled by the informed and the informed only rules when he has the right media to reach out to his audience. Information without communication is void in itself.
One of the greatest means of communicating ideas is through writing and content developers are much appreciated now than never due to the forever increase in world dependence on technology.
Barbara Tuchman is of the opinion that “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” Writers are great achievers and the readers in turn make leaders, the best form to make a better nation is to have more writers and greater readers. The internet stands the best media where content creators meet the consumers. How then do every content creator, writer of designer ensure he gets to his target audience, how does the audience in turn esnsure that he grows in knowledge while also enjoy financial benefits? The answer is here: Ishook with the blockchain technology.
WHAT THE ISHOOK WANT TO ACHIEVE
The exponential frequency at which newly generated content is on the internet is astounding and serves as a reminder of how intricate and delicate the relationship between content developers and their audience is. Every second, millions of pieces of content are both created and consumed across various networks with limited amounts of interoperability. There’s both a lack of an epicenter and connectivity among platforms and audiences.
As time goes on and as more individuals adopt emerging technologies, the ecosystem is expected to continue to expand and experience a form of scattering. Publishing content online grants content creators access to a broad and distributed international audience. The problem is, how can the success of a content creator be accurately measured against the masterful content they create while buried amongst the clamor? The situation is best described with the monkey worker bamboo eater tale. The content creators work their asses off while the content host goes home with the bulk of the benefits.
Ishook aims at connecting content creators and audiences while leveraging the blockchain technology and of course to ensure rich content is delivered to end users. What began as a vision and successful platform that enables publishers and booksellers to distribute their works to millions of users are seeking to break those limits and move to all forms of content.
iShook will be a refuge for all inspired content creators seeking a platform, a community - a home. This is the revitalized content economy - this is iShook.
HOW WILL ISHOOK GET THIS DONE?
Almost every second, millions of likes occur on Facebook, thousands of tweets occur on Twitter, millions of likes occur on Instagram, and hundreds of hours of videos regularly uploaded to YouTube. With billions of users spread across dozens of social networks, these types of numbers don’t come as a surprise. Content consumers have a tough time connecting with content creators due to a lack of proper targeting, especially concerning authors and readers. This results from the fact that Social media networks not only contain non-readers but advertising solutions that may be costly, even though they’re not targeting the right individuals, the struggle by content creators to find reasonable, easy-to-manage monetary outputs to keep doing what they love. On the user side, issues like the varieties of content management channels with their attendant individual challenges and disadvantages.
iShook is therefore seeking to enhance its singular network to facilitate and host digital content and increase content creators visibility. Rather than have content creators lost under a multitude of distribution networks and social media channels, iShook provides a singular social network gateway between authors and their audiences.
iShook’s future goals includes creating an enabling content environment in which any medium of creativity can generate a profit. iShook plans on being a platform not just for facilitating publishers and readers, but also artists, musicians, actors, and any content developer seeking a better way to expose and monetize their material globally. Ishook is for everyone: THE CONTENT CREATORS looking for a single network channel in which they can publish, monetize, and market their content, THE READER who searches for better access channels to their desired content, THE NOTE TAKER who wish to share and access their notes directly from content creators and other readers.
WHAT MEDIA IS AT YOUR DISPOSAL SUBSCRIBING WITH ISHOOK?
In other to ensure maximum satisfaction of clients, Ishook has developed a wide range of media in relation with the dominant technology to ensure that the targeted audience are reached. Aside the web applications which includes:
1 – www.ishook.com: The primary social networking platform
2 – www.ishookdaily.com: News, blogging, and articles
3 – www.ishookstore.com: E-commerce store.
Ishook has other web platforms it patterners with like Gardner 
A few of the already integrated features include:
- Sophisticated sharing features to let users not only share their reading habits to the entire iShook platform but also share their activity on any social media platform of their choice
- Push notifications to alert users as to any promotional offers currently occurring, author updates, and more.
- User bookshelves to allow them to aggregate their content, and share their entire collection of what they’ve been reading with the iShook community.
- Highlighting and markup features to allow users to add notes and highlight specific areas of books that they found to be captivating.
HOW THEN DO YOU EARN WITH ISHOOK?
THIS IS ENSURED THROUGH THE USE OF THE BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY.
Blockchain technology provides countless possibilities for the registration and distribution of intellectual property, including transactions without intermediaries. Blockchain combined with a decentralized delivery of digital content creates a new paradigm shift in the era of digital management culture. Blockchain technology based encryption and digital rights management (DRM), payments, and transactions are secure by offering a distributed and transparent online marketplace.
ISHOOK therefore ensures that your contents are licensed by encouraging, protecting and giving priority to the use of free, shared or owned licenses as a means of helping to facilitate the construction of a cultural marketplace. iShook is working with Gardners UK, which has grown to become a leading wholesaler of books, eBooks, music, and film to retailers around the world.
Ishook ensures you are adequately paid and ease of transaction, it is therefore currently working with coinpayments.net & Parallelpayments.com to accept awide range of cryptocurrencies including iShook Token, and to provide PSP tailored solutions that allow cryptocurrency payments on behalf of our providers. This means business-as-usual with safety, speed, and security.
Through the ISHOOK SMART CONTRACTS, which are signed cryptographically between the parties and are intended to provide greater security than traditional contract law. In doing so, they also reduce transaction costs along the process of contracting. iShook’s smart contracts mean a considerable saving of time and money for artists, producers, institutions, organizations working in the content creation and publishing sector.
The following are also pronounced benefits from ISHOOK - ISHOOK TOKENS WHICH HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A NEW DIGITAL ECONOMY through which iShook plans on harnessing blockchain technology to not only be on the cutting edge of recent innovations and breakthroughs but to incentivize our user base and decentralize a multitude of features already established on the platform. To introduce new and unique monetization models on iShook, we will be leveraging the Ethereum blockchain to create iShook Tokens. iShook Tokens will first be introduced to our web platform in the form of micro-transactions and peer-to-peer payments for content and network exposure. The tokens will then recirculate through various incentive models deployed by iShook, creating an ecosystem in which users and content creators can transact. iShook will build value for iShook Tokens through the multiple ways in which users can utilize them throughout a multitude of platform functions as outlined in the following sections.
- CONTENT CREATOR BENEFITS in which Content Creators will be able to manage their own accounts. In effect they will be intheir own silos, with the success of each content creator depending on his own efforts, and not those of other Content Creators. In addition to a standard rate set by iShook in the royalties’ process, content creators will also have the ability to receive additional royalties for their content in the form of iShook Tokens. Besides providing an open publishing platform, wewish to give authors a bonus to help leverage their materials. These can then be spent on advertising through the iShook network to boost a content creator’s presence and assist them with visibility and sales. The benefits to a content creator is sumarised thus: The ability to also receive royalties in the form of iShook Tokens on the platform, Access to an extensive advertising network within iShook for content promotion and exposure,The ability to host paid Q&A sessions and set prices on entrance fees.
- USER BENEFITS are summarized thus: Discounts on both content released by authors and eCommerce store products, Notes from both authors and readers to be paid with no intermediaries at a variable rate, Access private Q&A sessions hosted by the content creators of their choice, The ability to name their price on content when it’s released for free by a content creator.
- REFERRALS INCENTIVES AND USER DRIVE includes: Bonuses to content creators will be granted once they sign up as iAuthors on the iShook platform. iAuthor’s won’t just have access to our advanced self-publishing and marketing tools, but will also be granted a significant amount of iShook Tokens which can then be spent on advertisements, promotions, and more, Bonuses for submission milestones will be granted to iAuthors after a certain amount of content submissions are made to the platform. The more active an author is with content submissions, the more they’ll be rewarded by the platform, Bonuses for engagement milestones will be granted to iAuthors that facilitate an extremely active audience. The more that readers engage and critique an author’s submission equates to rewards being issued to those content creators, Bonuses for longevity milestones will be granted to users for being active participants on the iShook platform for set periods of time. Milestones will be reached upon set thresholds by iShook, and rewards will increase over more extended periods of time spent on the platform, Bonuses for signups will be granted to users after fully establishing their profile and meeting a strict set of criteria to verify their identity, Bonuses for referrals will be granted to users who actively seek to expand the iShook ecosystem by referring their friends, loved ones, and communities to join iShook.
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