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Apple Acquires Rights to Sam Bankman-Fried Book for $5M
Apple has reportedly acquired the rights to a book that tells the story of the disgraced FTX founder, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), according to an initial report from The Ankler. The upcoming book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” will be authored by Big Short author Michael Lewis in a literary rights acquisition worth approximately $5 million. SBF was first arrested in December 2022 following the collapse of FTX. The Ankler first broke this news back in November 2022, revealing that Lewis had been part of an “old-school Hollywood bidding war” for the then-unwritten book as FTX’s […]
NFT Project Combines Photos and Poetry to Capture Japan During Lockdown
Although the NFT community has primarily built its reputation on projects featuring visual art, it welcomes creatives of other disciplines freely with open arms. For instance, musicians also have ample opportunities within the space through NFT music marketplaces such as Sound.xyz. But what of creatives in literary disciplines? They too have reaped the benefits of NFTs, as seen in cases such as crypto-journalist Laura Shin’s NFT book club. Some entities such as Untitled Frontier have even sold generative art as companion pieces to short stories. Surprisingly though, one field of literature that remains relatively unexplored in the NFT space is […]