When you buy a compendium, you always have access to it in games, even if you didn't create the game. As the creator of the game, you can also share your compendiums in it. If you share compendiums in your game, your friend would have access to any compendiums you own as well as the ones he has bought (the MM, for example). Edit to add: Your friend, however, would not be able to share his Monster Manual to other players in the game. As a GM, though, he would be able to drag/drop monsters from the compendium into the game.