> When Microsoft first released Silverlight - the first books were from Microsoft themselves, the others quickly followed.
You have just highlighted the essential difference between books and software.. Software is a single sale: you buy that product from the manufacturer and don't buy a rival product to do the same thing. That's not true with books - to take the Silverlight example, I have half a dozen different books on Silverlight on my shelves, each offering a different perspective and level of detail. Personally I've always found the microsoft press books rushed and full of errors, but I still buy them for the few useful nuggets they will hold, generally before the better written ones come out :) But all these things go hand in hand: We need new blood if we are going to support authors - since the hairy old MV developers won't be the ones buying books even though they can help bring their skills up to date with the new features in the products or up to date techniques. (It's the old 'this technology is easy so I shouldn't have to pay out for what I can work out by myself' argument - even though it's cheaper in the long run to get the advice rather than sacrifice paid time to do it yourself. See also: 'Not invented here syndrome'). But to attract that new blood, we need the publications and educational materials in place to tell them about the technology in the first place. Which is why the incubator project at the U2UG is such an important piece in this discussion. And why I will inevitably keep banging on about it for the next 12 months - you have been warned <grin>. Brian _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
