January 25, 2007
Switching To VoIP
Ted Wallingford's Switching to VoIP book from O'Reilly first came out in Jun 2005, but I noticed it being advertised on his site recently, while catching up on my reading. Now, analysts have declared at the end of 2006 that VoIP has now gone mainstream. So Ted's book might be a good one to pick up. Ted is also the author of the more recent VoIP Hacks.
I'm predicting that we'll see more and more VoIP books appearing on the market, several probably in the edit process already. But the good news for publishers and authors is that the lifecycle of VoIP books is probably going to be longer than a lot of computer-related books. My PHP + mySQL web programming book (designed by me but only co-authored) came out in Nov 2002 and was out of print by the next year because it was outdated. As long as VoIP books focus on features and hacks and are supplemented with a blog for updates, they might just stay relevant for an extra year.
The extra market that'll appear for VoIP books is in education, as more programs appear for training people in the high end of VoIP skills for niches such as IP PBX, installation, performance monitoring, load balancing, security, etc.
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