Abstract: A system and a method for creating virtual textbooks and other educational collections by assembling content sections from multiple online resources, and remunerating the authors for their contributions. The system allows curators to assemble online multimedia textbooks by selecting, cross-publishing and organizing content components from a) online collections crowdsourced from expert contributors or b) posted by textbook publishers for the purposes of re-mixing into new online educational resources. Students or other purchasers may then purchase these textbooks/educational resources directly. or they me be selected and customized by professors/teachers as required materials for their students for purchase when taking their course. Once a textbook/educational resource is purchased by a student, all stakeholders in the system (authors, contributors, curators, etc.

Abstract: Content from one site may be collaboratively linked and natively republished to another site for viewing and editing. Content cross-published is natively integrated within the target site taxonomy structure. Cross-published content can always be kept up to date, meaning that anytime the content is updated on the source site, any site that has the content cross-published to it automatically gets the updated content. If a user with permission sees the content on a re-published site and can edit the content directly without having to jump to the source site, and the content is automatically updated on all republished sites. In addition, authors have access to analytics for how the content is being used on all target sites. Authors of content may set policies for cross-publishing content.