[Catalyst] Is Catalyst large enough to sustain a book?

[Scott Karns]

Sebastian Riedel wrote:

>28.04.2006 06:12 Kieren Diment:
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>>On 27/04/06, Harley Mackenzie <hjm at bigpond.com> wrote: During the  
>>recent "What a waste of time" thread, it was raised that Catalyst  
>>doesnt have an "Agile Web Development with Rails" book available. I  
>>dont want to waste anyones time discussing the obvious bait in this  
>>thread, but the point is valid that the whole Catalyst community  
>>would greatly benefit from a comprehensive book.
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>>   * Does Catalyst have enough momentum and support to sustain a book?
>>   * Without giving away confidential information, is anyone aware  
>>of a book deing developed?
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>>I would guess that any prospective publisher would be either  
>>OReilly, Apress, Manning (they dont seem to be too active in the  
>>Perl arena of late) or as an outside WROX (seem to go more for all  
>>in one books rather than specialist subjects). If there isnt a work  
>>in progress, is it worth developing a book proposal?
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>O'Reilly is not interested (they made clear they are only going to  
>"support" one framework),
>Apress asked us to write for them but then stopped answering (heard  
>they've chosen some Python framework now).
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>Don't know about Manning yet but i'm not very optimistic.
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>>Well, I'm all for helping develop a self-published pdf a la 47  
>>signals.  Sri seems to be most receptive to this approach as well.   
>>I think the most significant barrier to doing this is a.  getting  
>>people to do serious work for no advance, and b.  getting a real  
>>professional publishing editor on board.
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>Yes i really like the idea of self publishing.
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>sebastian
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This may be somewhat off-topic, but when it comes to a dead tree type
book, has anyone considered www.lulu.com?

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Scott Karns