Press, said in a speech that "book publishing as a whole has its very own potential Napster crisis in the growing practice of bookcrossing". BookCrossers rebutted the link to Napster, saying that while music filesharing involves duplicating audio files countless times, BookCrossing doesn't involve duplicating books (and also does not involve violating copyright, as books can be sold or given away freely without permission of the publisher being needed). When BookCrossing was first launched, the founder of BookCrossing, Ron Hornbaker, originally wondered if people would make this comparison. Prominent BookCrossers Richard Bach R J Ellory Jim Hawkins See also Book swapping: contains a list of other book-swapping websites Book sales club Give-away shop Library Gift economy Postcrossing Public bookcase Reuse Sharing References External links Internet properties established in 2001 Book websites Internet object tracking Book swapping American social networking websites