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Mint NFT Book (beta)
Publishing eBook as an NFT
📣Minting Writing NFT requires LikeCoin, users can get a small amount of LikeCoin from the faucet for testing.
Publishing an NFT book involves three stages:
- 1.Preparing the eBook files, NFT book cover, and various data files.
- 2.Minting the NFT book.
- 3.Listing the NFT book on Liker Land and sales
The following will provide a detailed explanation of each step.
You must have your eBook file ready before publishing your NFT book; the file can be in any popular ebook format, such as pdf and epub. This guide will not cover how to make an ebook file.
You must prepare at least two cover images for your NFT book, one for the listing view and another for the book detail view. The listing view is for the user to browse the NFT book information in-store, and the book detail view is the unique cover of each NFT book.
The book info page is a single page that lists the book information, such as information about the authors and publisher, descriptions and recommendations, etc. It can be any webpage.
It would be best to have your book metadata as complete as possible before publishing the NFT book. You can continually update the metadata by updating the version of the book ISCN later if necessary, however. Book metadata includes but is not limited to author name, book name, stakeholders and their wallet address, book description, usage terms, etc.
Get a few sample data files in JSON format under the directory https://github.com/likecoin/iscn-nft-tools/tree/master/mint-nft. You must prepare the necessary data file. The definitions of data files are stated below:
Fields | Values |
|---|---|
contentMetadata → url | URL of the book information. For example: https://ckxpress.com/moneyverse/
It is the link to the “View Content” button in the NFT detail page, under the main NFT image. |
contentMetadata → name | Title of the ISCN |
contentMetadata → type | “Book” |
contentMetadata → version | ISCN version number |
contentMetadata → context | |
contentMetadata → keywords | Format: “a,b,c,d” |
contentMetadata → usageInfo | e.g.: CC BY-SA 4.0 |
contentMetadata → sameAs | Array of other URL representations of the NFT Book. If the URL ends with .epub or .pdf a special button for viewing would appear in Liker Land. e.g.: ["https://url/book.epub", "https://url/book.pdf"] |
contentMetadata → description | Description of the ISCN |
stakeholders | list of stakeholder info, e.g. { "contributionType":"http://schema.org/author", "entity": { "@id":"like13f4glvg80zvfrrs7utft5p68pct4mcq7t5atf6", "name":"高重建" }, "rewardProportion":"2" } |
contentFingerprint | decentralized storage hash, e.g.: "ipfs://QmVsa6WuHLiZtyfwQrFjgxwLvVqMPsvvvusTdCKmTyqkca", "ar://e-bMr7c3O_sm20zb7X5Vu870Q8b-Pc7eIxmjYXgJmsI” |
recordNotes | reserved |
nft_class.json
name | NFT title displaying in portfolio/dashboard, class view and detail view. |
|---|---|
description | NFT description displaying in class view and detail view. |
symbol | Reserved |
uri | Optional, default value is null.
Advance usage: the URI of an API to return an image that serves as the og image of the NFT class, which is displayed in the portfolio/dashboard and class view of liker.land, and may display in detail view as well if nfts.csv and nfts_default.json are not set properly. |
metadata → image | The URL of an image that serves as the og image of the NFT, which is displayed in the portfolio/dashboard and class view of liker.land, and may display in detail view as well if nfts.csv and nfts_default.json are not set properly. |
metadata → external_url | The link to the “View Content” button in the NFT detail page, under the main NFT image.
The url field in iscn.json takes preference. |
metadata → message | The “creator message” that is appended to every NFT in the same class. |
metadata → nft_meta_collection_id | NFT category, e.g.: nft_book, nft_mail, nft_photo, nft_illustration etc. Liker Land use this field to decide which section the NFT is displayed. |
metadata → nft_meta_collection_name | NFT category name |
metadata → nft_meta_collection_descrption | NFT category description |
Fields | Values |
|---|---|
uri | Optional, default value is null.
Advance usage: the URI of an API to return an image that serves as the og image of the NFT class, which is displayed in the portfolio/dashboard and class view of liker.land, and may display in detail view as well if nfts.csv and nfts_default.json are not set properly. |
metadata → name | default NFT name if the field is not specified in nfts.csv metadata. |
metadata → description | default NFT description if the field is not specified in nfts.csv metadata. |
metadata → image | If image info is not available in nfts.csv, the image will be provided first by this this URI and second by the metadata→image field. |
metadata → external_url | The link to the “View Content” button in the NFT detail page, under the main NFT image.
The url field in iscn.json takes preference. |
Fields | Values |
|---|---|
nftId | The unique NFT ID under a specific NFT class ID. The system will generate a random ID if it is not specified. Format requirement: https://docs.like.co/developer/likenft/likecoin-nft-module-spec#mintnft . |
uri | Optional, default value is null.
Advance usage: the URI of an API to return an image that serves as the og image of the NFT class, which is displayed in the portfolio/dashboard and class view of liker.land, and may display in detail view as well if nfts.csv and nfts_default.json are not set properly. |
image | The URL of an image that serves as the og image of the NFT, which is displayed in the NFT detail view of liker.land. |
metadata | Metadata of the NFT image of any related parameter which is expected to be record on chain. |
iscn.json
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nft_class.json
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nfts.csv
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nfts_default.json
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For technical details of NFT book, please refer to the below guide:
Please log in to your Keplr and select "Mint NFT" on LikeCoin NFT Book Press. Then click "Connect" in the upper right corner to connect to Keplr.
On the Mint LikeCoin NFT/NFT Book page, select the prepared iscn.json file and click "Choose file" to upload it. After that, click "Create". Keplr will display a pop-up window. The system will register the ISCN based on the provided data. Please click "Approve" to sign and register.
Click "Choose file" to upload iscn.json and then click "Create"
Click "Approve" on Keplr to sign and register
After successfully registering the ISCN, create an NFT Class based on it. Unless you want to set a maximum supply limit, you don't need to fill in the "Max number of supply for the NFT Class (optional)" field. Click "Choose file" to upload the prepared nft_class.json file. Then click "Create" and sign twice with Keplr by clicking "Approve" to generate the NFT Class.
Click "Choose file" to upload nft_class.json and then click "Create"
Click "Approve" twice on Keplr to generate the NFT Class
You need to upload two files: nfts_default.json and nfts.csv to mint the NFT Book. Please note that the CSV file specifies the actual number of NFTs you want to publish, and you need to enter the same quantity in the "Number of NFT to mint" field. Then click "Create" and sign with Keplr by clicking "Approve" to confirm.
Click "Choose file" to upload nfts_default.json and nfts.csv, enter the Number of NFT to mint, and then click "Approve" on Keplr to sign and confirm
A pop-up window will appear, and you can save the result file. Then return to the page where "Success!" is displayed, indicating NFT Book minted successfully. Click "View your NFT" to check the NFT book in Liker Land.
save the resSave the result file on the pop-up windowsult file
Click "View your NFT"
Since you have only completed minting and have not made them available for sale, the book quantity will be shown as "Sold out." The next step is to list the NFT books for sale on Liker Land.
View published NFT books at Liker Land
You may have the need to update the eBook files (epub/pdf) or any metadata, for example, a typical scenario is to include the registered ISCN into the eBook files, and hence you will get new contentFingerprints. Take this use case as an example, you need to:
- 1.Add the ISCN information to the eBook files (pdf/epub).
- 2.Upload the eBook files to IPFS and get the new hash (contentFingerprint).
- 3.Update the ISCN to replace the old contentFingerprint by the new one.
You can always trace back the information of the old ISCN versions, but Liker Land frontend will display the information of the most updated ISCN version.
Check out the tools to update ISCN below:
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