what is a script/app/CMS for sharing materials with colleagues?

Hello
I want a web app/platform/CMS where my colleagues and I at work share ebooks.
Everyone should register and can add and see the files on the website.
A wordpress blog might work, but the thing is that I don't want the posts to be shown as 'articles'. Any help please?

 

Why don't you just use something like Google Drive? Or Dropbox?

 

I thought about it, but I need it to have a system different from Drives. What I'm looking for is like the following website, it's in Arabic, but you'll get the idea without knowing the language:
http://www.booksstream.com/
http://www.books-cloud.com/

thank you for your reply

 

So, what you want is a place to share e-books which you don't really own the copyright for, or the license to actually share, huh? I don't care, I'm just wondering why not using Drive or Dropbox (places where copyright material gets taken down, and can get your account suspended).

Regardless: depending on what you need for this to work (do you need the actual images/thumbs of each individual item?) - this can be done quite easily by just setting up a website with a file-upload form (with a login to limit who can see the site), and a list of already uploaded content, preferably with a search function. That is a very simple task, you could probably get that set up by a developer in India or similar for a few dollars. If you need the thumbnails and such, information about each book and so on, it might take a bit more effort and cost a tiny bit more, but should still be doable quite easily.

 

I see
Thank you for the help

 

You mentioned WordPress - you CAN do this with Wordpress - it would involve a bit of customization (basically you'd need some sort of "limit post view to certain users" plugin) but it could be done. Maybe also a bit of a login-plugin to make it look a bit more like a login-page than a wordpress blog, but completely doable. Would probably be possible to set up without much coding knowledge too. You can limit all posts/articles/whatever posted on a WP install via the admin-interface.

 

that's cool.
Any recommendations for the plugins needed?

 

Sorry - I'm not really very active with WP at the moment, so I can't really recommend specific plugins, but have a look in the Wordpress-subforum, and ask there, perhaps?

 

sure
thanks