I know a professor of art history, Ph.D. from Columbia University and
currently teaching at the City College of New York, who has written a
book on how to write about art. She isn't interested in making money
off it, and would be interested in releasing it under a free license
for Wikibooks to use. However, she wants:
1) That it come up on a Google search for her name, i.e., that there's
some attribution on the pages themselves (not just in the history).
2) That no one other than her change it (presumably other than
wikilinking, breaking it into subpages, modifying navigational
headers, that sort of thing).
Now, obviously both points are largely against wiki principles, but my
impression is that the basic goal of Wikibooks is to publish quality
textbooks, and that wiki is just a means to an end here. Would
Wikibooks be willing to accept these terms?