[nekokami]

Originally Posted by STML

Elements of this remind be of if:book's GAMER THEORY project [http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/ and MIT's WE>ME [http://www.wearesmarter.org/. Have you checked them out?

Both of these are very interesting sites (damaged links corrected in this quote). They each deal with a single book being co-authored by a group. I can envision the kind of site I was describing enabling this sort of project -- I think it would be a natural growth and a fascinating direction in community publishing. However, not every book would need to be this open. An author who simply wanted to post their book, complete, and charge for it with a standard license could also do that.