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Published May 24 2005, 09:56 PM by breichelt

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Sahil Malik [MVP C#] said:

Regards this post by Ben where he points out that P2P book sharing might be a neat idea.
How about,...

# May 24, 2005 10:12 PM

Get with the publishers and ask for electronic copies. The shipping costs are then mitigated... DRM can be a pain in the neck, so be careful. Publishing companies might be able to help out, it could be worth asking them.

# May 24, 2005 10:15 PM

Jordan said:

There's a DVD sharing network similar to this, may be a good model to go by. Has available/requests/etc. with points systems as credits. Books would be ranked by the community (assigned a value) and when you make yours available, you earn points to spend.

I'll post the link to the DVD swapping site once I can dig it out of the dusty corner of my mind that I filed it away in.

# May 24, 2005 10:18 PM

breichelt said:

Electronic copies would surely be more cost effective, and probably be the only way this would work without some corporate sponsorship, but theres nothing like having the real text of the book....

# May 25, 2005 5:41 AM

Scott Galloway said:

I can't stand e-books...problem is the device you have to use to read them on...sooner e-paper devices become mainstream the better...I would be totally up for this type of system though, I have several hundred computer books lying around (literally). SO who's up for starting a closed 'book-share' community site for developers :-)

# May 25, 2005 6:45 AM

breichelt said:

I wonder if some INETA group or company would be willing to fund it? Someone would have to be in charge of managing the money and making sure that it was being used for its intended purpose, not a small job, but I think it would be really cool!

# May 25, 2005 6:58 AM

Jordan said:

http://www.peerflix.com is the DVD site I was thinking of... could be a cool model for a book swapping community...

# May 25, 2005 9:30 AM

breichelt said:

Jordan, thats aweseme! This is exactly what I had in mind, pretty cool...

# May 25, 2005 10:04 AM

Sashidhar Kokku said:

Did you consider Oreilly's Safari ?
http://safari.oreilly.com.

They have a nice collection, although I would not call it complete.The fee is modest as well.
Check it out when you have a chance.
-S

# May 25, 2005 10:27 AM