Actually it is at least a century old LOL. I'm more confident the current model will persist for another century than I am the model being rendered obsolete by the metaverse.
Man, I've played around with Crypto, NFTs, virtual and augmented reality, all of it -- I'm into that kind of the tech stuff. But for the same reason I don't spend hours of social media I will not be spending an appreciable amount of my life in, or engaging in, the metaverse.
We are a long way away from selling books on block chains or building a metaverse where books will be purchased.
Physical books will persists and will be sold outside the metaverse for the foreseeable future.
@daniellegfny did anyone buy your NFT yet?
I'll pass on downloading this apps -- it is not exactly revolutionary...