Ken,
The simple answer is no..
The reasoning is that I am not a believer in books, in this day & age, especially for this type of technical writing. While I am a voracious reader I realize books, as our generation knew them, are a dying breed.
With my new web site www.marinehowto.com, coming soon, the articles will eventually be offered in .pdf and with tablets, internet access etc. etc. books are really so yesterday. Also once a book has been written it can no longer be kept up to date and I physically lose control of the product..
Even in the field the iPad has made carrying my huge notebooks of wiring diagrams 100% unnecessary. One small tablet and I have hundreds and hundreds of manuals at my fingertips plus I can always down load any updates to an original. I can't do that with my three-ring-binder......
Had a good talk with Nigel about this and his last book, an edited version of the original, was recently released. To keep his book current he has to fully edit it every few years. With a single web site I can edit the single copy as things change, new products are introduced or old products are discontinued and keep it current. This keeps the content more accurate and it also, hopefully, keeps the content free where books are not free....
As of now the web site is still in the red but I am hopeful that it will soon begin to support itself and perhaps even pay me a bit for my time. Beyond that the last people I want to pay, for all my work, is a publisher. Over the long haul I believe the direction I am moving is the right one and a book is not.
