It could work like this:
1. People go to the library, take some books home, and scan them in.
2. People who support the project donate some anonymous bitcoins.
3. The system automatically divides the bitcoins to each person taking part in the project each month. The more pages you upload, the bigger your share of the donations.
4. Continue until every book existing in the world is uploaded, for free, without any restrictions, in one amazing library for every person on the planet to access.
That might be doable but with the proliferation of PDF books, torrents and the Kindle reaching critical mass the price of physical books is sliding towards zero. Since I realized this I am selling my books on amazon and it is a losing battle to be the lowest priced seller.
Too true. Unless listed for a penny, books just seem to languish on Amazon gathering cyberdust (and real dust, in the real world).
However, I'm finding that any books on finance - particularly on improving your finances, investing and trading on the markets - sell within days of being listed, and they aren't listed for just a penny either!
Now of there was a book (not an ebook) on beating or curcumventing the financial system by investing in bitcoin...