Re: retiring the books section for good?

Rasmus the question was if you have anything against retiring the books page on php.net. Does it provide any noticable income to some bank account? Gabor Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Much money from Google? No we won't. Theoretically we could get $3000 > ($500 for each project if they all succeed) but that's all. And it > isn't worth the paperwork involved. > > -Rasmus > > Nuno Lopes wrote: > >> Yes, I think we can remove it. Finding interesting books is quite easy >> these days, so there's no need for this page. >> But there is something that needs to be taken in account: the money >> generated with Amazon links. I don't know if that's much money or if >> PHP.net needs such money (well this year, it will receive much money >> from Google). >> >> So I vote to remove that section, but provided that the condition >> above is met. >> >> Nuno >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We have a books section on php.net. Not many of our users know this >>> though, since it is not too prominent. Some of the publishers now that >>> however, and periodically send in new books to add. Some of the good >>> publishers don't care. >>> >>> Nowadays the books section is partly outdated and mostly a subjective >>> selection of those books we had time to add and got direct information >>> about. Since despite new book suggestions coming in, noone really cares >>> to update the books page, I would suggest to retire it, as the scripts >>> collection was retired way back, after all the script collection sites >>> popped up. >>> >>> Opinions? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Gabor > >