I’m not the only person tired of the brick-sized technical book (you know, 1,000 page tomes on PHP, XML, JSP, etc.). Of course, Cam Barrett suggested they make good monitor stands.
Some books have to be large (Ash: The Secret History, or LoTR for example). But most technical books can and should be skinny.
The author points out O’Reilly’s XML-RPC and the Zope Book as examples for publishers to emulate.
Related to this: I was at two book stores today, trying to find a decent book on PHP to give to someone who wanted to learn how to use it on her site. She got the recently published London: the Biography of a City instead. If you’re a publisher, let’s talk about writing a good PHP book.
