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Originally Posted by jhowell
Sharing your notes is fine, but beware of possible copyright infringement when sharing the actual books.
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Quite true. All of the above discussion should be considered only for public domain books or books that you, the person doing the distribution, holds the copyright.
Most Creative Commons books, though free to redistribute in their original form, would likely be illegal to redistribute after altering them to add comments. Even if redistribution in an altered form was permissible under the particular CC license in use, that redistribution would most likely have to be totally free; no distribution charge, no advertisement, ... .