Books in wiki:

• Extreme Democracy: http://www.extremedemocracy.com/
• the Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics chapter is hosted here
• Extreme Democracy: Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy and its Feedback
• JD Lasica's Darknet (editing now closed, off to print)
• Lessig's Free Culture Wiki. Related, see Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low
• Neal Stephenson Quicksilver Wiki
• Rick Heller Smart Genes Wiki
• Lessig's Code

About Books in Wiki:

• Authors open texts online for others to edit by Michael Bazeley Mercury News, covers Darknet

Wiki complements to books:

• Wikibooks Portal -- a Wikipedia project to collaboratively develop and disseminate free open content textbooks, just getting going
• Brad DeLong's MacroEcon 101
• Schoolforge Book -- using a wiki to collaboratively write a book about open source in schools
• Bookshelved Wiki -- wiki-based discussion about books
• The Wiki Way -- its a book and its about wiki, by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham

Books that should be wikified:

• Everything by Cory Doctorow http://craphound.com/
• Rick Heller points out that the first open source novel may have been Exit Strategy, by Douglas Rushkoff
• Sam Williams' book, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software is already published under the GNU Free Documentation License v1.1.
• Dan Gillmor used the blog and comment approach for his book, We the Media:
• Outline
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 -- Wikis Making the News, wikified feedback on a section
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Alex Halavais used the blog and comment approach for his chapter of the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments
• Part 1: Collaborative Web Publishing as a Technology and a Practice
• Part 2: Weblogs as 'Replacement' Educational Technology
• Part 3: The Open Classroom
• Part 4: Trips without the field
• Part 5: New apprenticeship
• Part 6: Timeless education
• JD Lasica posted the first chapter of Darknet, which details the rise of personal media and the escalating conflict between entertainment companies and individuals using the power of digital technology.

Wiklit project:

• Wiklit - literature as wiki just started. I have put Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom online as a wiki and will add some more stuff soon.

Open Art:

• Guy Kawasaki's Art of the Start has 300 cover art contributions so far

Related:

• O'Reilly Open Books Project
• Project Gutenberg -- oldest source of free electronic books
• Distributed Proofreading Project -- 4000 books and counting
• Banned Books Online
• The Book and the Computer
• Bookcrossing -- global book sharing community (via Liz)

Is Quicksilver in the linked Wiki? I saw page annotations, but not the full text. If it's not, shouldn't it be moved to the "Wiki compliments to books" section?

contributed by user3449 on Mar 16 8:15am