Since we've introduced the new line of WebGUI books they've been amazingly popular. We've been selling more and more every quarter, and we're also always putting effort into improving them. We've been absolutely amazed at how well you (our users) have received them. Today I have both good and bad news about WebGUI Books.

The only real complaint we've ever received about our books is that they are more expensive than people were expecting. In an effort to make our books more competitive with the prices you might pay for books from a traditional printer like O'Reilly we have decided to lower the cost of our books to $60 for the black and white editions. I hope that this change in price helps to alleviate those concerns. That's the good news.

Unfortunately the bad news is that our book printer has raised their prices dramatically on color printing. Therefore we can not offer the discount on the color versions. We never made much money on the color versions because they're so expensive to print, but we felt that it was important to offer the color editions because we live in a world of rich and vibrant color. Unfortunately the price hike is so large that we went from not making much to making almost nothing on the books, and we have to recoup the effort we put in to writing them. So as of today we're raising the price of our color books to $120 per copy.

We look forward to bringing you updated editions of our books in 2009, and we hope the price drop we just made can help you out in these rough economic times.