This Wiki is a ''very'' rich resource. Browsing is nice, but I kinda wish that the gems here were available in printed format. Not exactly a cookbook, but an edited  ''best of'' Wiki (games, toys, techniques, hacks, etc).

-- [Todd Coram]

[RS]: This topic has been discussed several time in the [Tcl chatroom]. The biggest problem seems to be the very different views on copyright by publishers and by us. A publisher would require to receive the rights to the text of the book, and might even sue people who reuse contents of this Wiki. (I think it happened to Wolfram's MathWorld). So for the time being, even if we found a willing publisher, chances are very little... Actually, the title for the non-existing book that I had in mind is [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming] ;-)

[Todd Coram]: Ugh. Darn publishers. I suppose it would depend on the publisher. I did a chapter for an Addison Wesley book and retained full copyright on the text. But, I suppose a Tcl Wiki book probably wouldn't sell big, so the publishers would try to get every dime (and rights) possible. I suppose it would be pointless to do an ''online'' book (since the Wiki is ''*online*''). Although such a book would be targetted toward printing (PDF or postscript).... sigh, just thinkin'.

[RS]: Actually my daughters at times nag me to write a book on Tcl (so they share some of the fame;-). Of course lots of Wiki content could be reused for that, but must be a rewrite from scratch (to be decoupled copyright-wise), and would take some time accordingly. If anybody knows a daring publisher, drop me a note!

CJU: Doesn't O'Reilly[http://www.oreilly.com/] have several books that are available in both hardcopy and freely-distributable electronic form?

[kroc]: You might publish yourself your book here [http://www.infinitypublishing.com/getstarted.htm]

[SS]: This is another ''print on demand'' service that may allow to actually create such a book [http://www.lulu.com].

[MAK]: There is also CafePress [http://www.cafepress.com/].

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