I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of the print edition of Using Liferay Portal 6.1! For those of you on your toes (and you know who you are), it's actually been available since Friday, but who reads a blog entry that is published on Friday afternoon?

It's a big book. We're getting close to 700 pages now in print, and that does not include the properties reference, which we think is better as an online reference than stuffed into the book (plus, we can lower the price if we excise those pages). I want to acknowledge the hard work of Liferay's Knowledge Management team for a job well done: Jim Hinkey, Stephen Kostas, Jesse Rao, and Cody Hoag. In addition to these guys, some other key contributors include James Falkner, Bruno Farache, Michael Han, Jeffrey Handa, Mark Healy, and Jonathon Omahen.

So if you like big, thick books on your shelf, especially ones with the Liferay logo on them, why not pick one up?

Of course, we're not stopping there. I'm in the midst of working on the styling of the epub version of the book, which we'll release next. Stay tuned!