New Riders to publish "The Zope Book" As many of you know, Amos Latteier and I have spent the last year working with O'Reilly and Associates writing a book about Zope. Recently, O'Reilly decided not to publish the book. We took the book to a number of different publishers, all of whom showed a lot of interest in publishing it. After lots of discussion and review of our options, we have decided to go with New Riders Publishing. We think is a great choice for us, for Zope, and for the Zope community. New Riders is a great publishing company, and we have been very impressed with their line-up of high quality, open source oriented books. Amos and I are really excited to become NR authors, and to have our works placed alongside other great NR books. One of our main reasons for going with NR was their enthusiasm to publish the book under an open content license. Starting today, *The Zope Book* is licensed under the Open Publication License v1.0 (http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/) with none of the restrictive license options chosen. These new licensing terms means that we can we begin to distribute the book in several different downloadable formats, and that you, the reader, can use the book content in a free and open manner in accordance with OPL guidelines. We will also be providing the book in raw, structured text format from a publicly available CVS archive so that community members can contribute patches directly to the book, and other great documentation projects we will be announcing soon! At this point, it is difficult for us to talk about firm timelines, but we hope to have the book on the shelves by early June. NR is very commited to providing us with extensive editorial resources, and the next couple of months are going to be really exciting! For those of you who participted in our free, signed book contest, don't worry, you'll still get your signed copy, it will just look a little different that what you expected. ;) I have uploaded the newest version of the book to Zope.org. We have been waiting for the publication deal to happen before we did this, and now that all that is taken care of you will be seeing lots of changes to the book, and hopefully some more useful downloadable formats in the near future. The book can be found on the Zope.org website at http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/. Once again, thanks for all your comments and support. Without all those eyes out there looking at our work, it would not be what it is today, and hopefully it will only continue to get better thanks to you and the friendly folks at New Riders. -Michel Pelletier