[Bf-docboard] Blender books -> official reference

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

Writing Blender books for (commercial) publishers is already a good  
and common bizz nowadays. I can only recommend anyone who is  
interested in this to contact publishers with good plans!

Blender Foundation is also publisher, we did this initially also to  
open up the market for Blender in bookstores. That's not really needed  
anymore. :)

What would be useful though is still:
- have about one book published per year to get additional income
- support the current active documentation volunteers
- have good quality, open and free docs in wiki.

I'd like to get two projects running for this.
One is for an updated "Blender Essential 2.5" book, for that I'll  
first work with the team who has done the first Essential book.

Another project is to check on the feasibility for a good (annual?)  
printed reference guide. Check for example how the 2.3 guide reference  
was done, I still think a good example of useful reference content for  
users (includes screenshots etc).
Would there be a useful and efficient way to organize this? To get  
both a great printed book as content for wiki? How? Who? :)

Thanks,

-Ton-

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