> I am not sure that there is enough of an audience for two books. > Perhaps you can cooperate with Igor to get your content into his book? > There would be a lot of marketing synergy there at least. Writing a book is a huge commitment and takes usually a lot of time; and if we consider the fast pace at which T5 is evolving lately I do not think that writing another one-man-book is the best strategy.
Why don't we -as a community- collaborate towards a Web magazine/journal or any other form of periodic publication ? Main reasons that I see in favor of this more flexible (agile if you like): - papers are more focused and requires in general less effort than a book. They have a fixed number of pages so authors are 'forced' to just say what it is important... Extensive code and additional examples can be also published somewhere else. - articles are cheaper (free if the authors wish) to sell and easier to distribute (google scholar like) - several authors can contribute to a single article and several papers can be merged into a more concrete/solid publications (book chapters). Making collaboration a daily activity. - committers and other members of the community can contribute also by reviewing the various contributions. This will raise the quality of the publications and will give credibility to them. Remember that peer review is MUST be done in a voluntary fashion for many reasons, I --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
