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Message: [QUOTE="Malcolm, post: 2385949"] I don't think there is much point redoing "C Unleashed". The book made it into print, which was a considerable achievement, but wasn't financially very successful. In other words, it wasn't such a disaster as to demand doing again, but not such a success as to demand a sequel. The Internet is changing publishing. The problem is that you will probably have to put publishing costs upfront if an electronic version is avialbale for free, because most publishers won't want to risk capital on a book that is already available. Terrible idea. The rejected authors will feel resentful and start trying to sabatage the project. I think you need to read C Unleashed, and the FAQ, which is avialable in print, and then think what you can do which is C-related, but different from these. A few ideas: "A second book of C". There are any number of C primers on the market, and quite a bit of advanced technical literature, but there really isn't anything for the person who has worked through a C primer, knows the basics, and then wants to move on. This might be a little too close to "C unleashed". "Structured programming versus OOP". A discussion of the merits of structured versus OO approaches, and when to use each. It won't be an anti-C++ book, since we are too mature for that, but it will defend the notion that it many circustances straight C is the language to prefer. "C99 - death of a standard". Write an expose of the C99 debacle, and how ANSI got into the situation of writing a standard which no-one has implemented. Quite a hard book to write, since it will demand journalistic as well as technical skills, but we might well have somebody who could do it here. [/QUOTE]

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