I did my usual sweep through the Amazon sites to see if any new SharePoint books had were listed or if any of the books I had listed were now being delivered.

I wasn't expecting much actually but I was quite surprised by several things.

The first was that my search threw up a SharePoint book in English that had come out in the beginning of 2007. I've been doing these searches for books on a regular basis so I can't imagine how I could have missed it in all the searches throughout that time.

Perhaps the most pleasant news was that there is at last a third French language original book on SharePoint. I'm pleased at expanding that part of the total list (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) with this.

So pleased in fact I'm going to give you the title and the link so you can order it ...

SharePoint 2007 - Créez votre site collaboratif étape par étape (in French) (Editions ENI - Sandrine Schmitt) from http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746041693/wssfaq0fe-21. I wonder about the "etape par etape" (stage by stage) though as that sounds very much like Microsoft Press's "step-by-step.

The next book that makes me happy is that finally the only German language original on SharePoint Designer 2007 (and only the third overall) is finally out.

Again that gets a boost here with the title and the link (to Amazon Germany in this case). Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp) from http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866451083/wssfaq0e-21

 It's a good job I checked out the link as it seems two more authors (Michael Greth and Bernhard Straub to be exact) have been added. Must go off to add them. More here later (there are some more new "books" worth mentioning).

OK that's the advert break over. Now what else is interesting?

Well, I've posted before about Amazon US's Kindle device for reading books. Their range of SharePoint books is now up to 10.

What IS interesting is that one of them appears to be one that was written specially for the Kindle format. There seem to be two indications of this a) I can't find it listed anywhere as a book and b) it's much shorter than any of the other SP books.

For those of you in the US (we poor people outside the US can't buy Kindle devices or download content for them), here are the details of just that one.

"Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter)" from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000P28WQ2/heme0f

They don't actually say how many pages it is, but the topic is one that's hardly covered anywhere else (although I'm planning to cover it in the book I'm writing at the moment) and the price (at 7,99) is more like the sort of price I expect these Kindle "books" to be at.

Oh, yes, and by the way if you are wondering if I'm only plugging that one because it's from Pearson (the company behind the Teach Yourself series), it's just a coincidence. Honest!

P.S. Andrew Connell revealed in his blog this week that his important book on Content Management with MOSS 2007 has been handed over to the publishers and that he is hoping for it to be out in a couple of months. We'll see how that estimate holds up. Meanwhile if you want to pre-order it, here's the Amazon US link. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470224754/heme0f (You know I hope about the extra 5% deduction on pre-orders? I have myself a Kasparov chess book I would buy anyway on pre-order for delivery in June - what with 5% off because it was in my gold chest offers and 5% off for pre-order, I think they are paying me! ..)

(Oops, more work to do. My price info for that book in the WSS FAQ sites is non-existent. Must do a bit of updating.)

P.P.S. In a sadder note, I saw this week that the date for the Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon book on SPD 2007 had been put back yet again and now was due out, in was it September 2008 (?) Pity, that's about 7 months after the first announced date.