Deterministic Literary Publishing: A Multi-Layer Provenance Model for Verifiable Manuscripts

A multi-layer provenance architecture for literary publishing that replaces institutional trust with cryptographic verification. Combines Merkle tree hashing, content-addressed storage, deterministic build pipelines, and append-only blockchain records into a five-layer verification stack. Formalized as the Literary Protocol Standard (LPS-1) and validated through a complete deployment accompanying a 75,000-word literary work.