Drupal Printed Paper Books

While visiting Egypt in summer of 2005, I realized that most people are still on dialup, and hence pay per minute for the connection. This is in contrast to North America where dialup, although slow, incurrs no per-minute charges (local calls are free).The same is true in other parts of the world where local calls are metered.This practice precludes reading references online. Talking to Drupal present and potential users in Egypt, South Africa and India, one question kept coming up: "is there a Drupal book I can buy and read?"So, when Ian Dickson posted in July 2005 on  Drupal, I tried contacted him, offering to collaborate on a Drupal book. I got no response though.Soon afterwards, Robert Douglass co-authored a book that had a section on Drupal, titled Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress which was published in December 2005. In May 2006, David Mercer's book Drupal: creating blogs, forums, portals, and community web sites was published.  It is available as an eBook as well. Dries got a copy and blogged about it.White the above books focus on installing and using Drupal, John VanDyk is writing a developer oriented Drupal book, in collaboration with Matt Westgate, original author of Drupal ecommerce, and presently with Lullabot.Dublin Drupaller, a long time user and developer, is also writing a themers guide for Drupal called Drupalicious: A Designer's Companion For Drupal Sites.There is also a German Drupal book by Hagen Graf.That is four English books so far, and one German, with more to come for sure ...Drupal for Dummies anyone?