Few yet understand this, but #Alexandria, in principle, makes every publication following the NIP-62 format uniquely addressable online.

If I provide you the Alexandria URL for a publication, you can verify its authenticity by confirming that the publication's Nostr event was signed by the entity that has the rights to publish it. This cryptographic identity cannot be faked. If changes are introduced, such as by the publication of a new edition, this too can be verified using Nostr identities.

It's like every possible publication that could be created has a street address, and you can go knock on the door and see for yourself that the person who is supposed to live there is indeed the person who answers the door.

We've not yet scratched the surface of the impact this new reality will have.

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Yes, we're cryptographically signing and versioning eBooks and research papers and eMagazines and other markup documents.

Another thing we're signing are publication contracts.

If one npub, verifiably representing a person or legal entity, holding a copyright, writes "Yes, you can publish my work on Nostr," into a note, and signs it, you can save that note to your hard disk and bring it out, anytime someone claims you broke copyright.