The book is worth the money (Score 1)

I own a readers' and writers' community, and do a lot of reading looking for ways to improve my content and offerings. The book had a number of truly useful bits of information, observations, and suggestions --

• Integrate live with static content
• Build in barriers -- they matter
• Bury the post button
• Try out some new tools like weblogs
• Offer user moderation of user-created content

Due to my community back-end, some of these have been tough to implement, but I managed workarounds, and like my results. For an independent site owner with a targeted and focused community, the book offers some great advice. More commercial or more diverse sites might find it less useful.