**Proponent**: 12WarfbFeUm5L9Fs5zkTaQQH7L5hqaGPEgM9vQ1UFK8kiUSK

**Date**: 03 Nov 2021

**Requested allocation**:  ~$25,000 (in three installments).

**Short description**: Although Ethereum is a much less complicated system, google ‘books on Ethereum’, then google ‘books on Polkadot’. You’ll notice that while there are more than 10 books on Ethereum, Polkadot (the network) has nothing. Of course, this is more a sign of age than anything, but I’m proposing a way to start our journey.

This proposal brings to light the lack of a holistic and easy-to-understand explanation of Polkadot in a book form. It outlines the importance of a book and proposes a solution to create one. But not just another book about blockchains but one focused on Polkadot and written from a totally non-technical perspective.

Please visit [this link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11NT6BzM8nOcbXR7wD1C2IJlsi0XyeJaS5Hv50Wy4rJ0/edit) to read the full proposal

A first draft has already been drafted (90% finished). You can view the first draft [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15p4Xy-I6_44zexCsPcZXHHlCj7L3Jcddle_8567B3x8/edit). Please leave your feedback to help shape the second draft.

The book will be published under a Creative Commons License (CC BY).

Previous discussion can be followed [here](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/treasury/52).

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- The proponent is requesting funds to create a book about Polkadot.
- They noticed that there are many books about Ethereum but none about Polkadot.
- The book will be written in a non-technical way to make it easy to understand.
- A first draft of the book is already 90% finished.
- The book will be published under a Creative Commons License.

#123 Proposal to expand the Polkadot ecosystem with a book for blockchain beginners