I've recently read about several people who have been successful in selling their ebooks. Following successful entrepreneur's advice, I'm looking for a topic I know well enough and that has a big enough target audience. I arrived at the idea of making a CakePHP book.<p>When I was learning CakePHP myself, I suffered because all the available books were old and the framework has changed sufficiently to make them useless as a learning tool. I've found the following pros and cons:<p>PROS:<p>- PHP remains one of the most used languages for the web, and CakePHP is one of the most popular PHP frameworks.<p>- All existing books are really outdated.<p>- It's a topic I know well, and know common questions people will have when learning it.<p>CONS:<p>- Ruby, Python, etc are hipper and probably what more people want to learn.<p>Would you as a developer be interested in a CakePHP ebook? Any feedback regarding the idea?<p>Thanks
I'm actually working on a CakePHP legacy app today and have experienced precisely what you are talking about (the lack of good material out there).<p>I am actually surprised at how CakePHP can be so popular, yet have so few books to support it.<p>Ruby and Python might be 'hipper' but with the numbers of people using PHP out there I am sure you would find demand would still be strong enough for something like this.<p>From a business/money making perspective - I'd assume that the market for Ruby, Python books is very crowded - but the competition doesn't seem strong at all for CakePHP.