Michael, thank you very much for the very detailed and comprehensive review. Your points are brilliant and we will make sure to improve the quality of the book in the future. Also, please notice that it was our decision to make the Smashing Book available exclusively on Smashing Magazine's website which is why the book is not available in book stores and doesn't have an ISBN number.

Apart from that, as you can read in the post we published in January:

"Many things have been happening with and around The Smashing Book in recent weeks. You must have read or heard that it would fall apart immediately upon being opened (okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration). In fact, the pages loosened quickly, and the reading experience was anything but ideal (the adhesive binding was the culprit). The verdict from many users was thus: brilliant content, very poor binding. And yes, let’s face facts: we indeed did a poor job in our first attempt at offline publishing, but we are willing to learn from our experience and do it better the next time. In fact, the next time has already come.

We have thoroughly monitored the feedback and heard your complaints, which is why we have produced a Corrected Edition of the book, with stable, high-quality stitched binding. Nothing will fall apart here guaranteed. [...] Please know that we are grateful for every order we have received. But enough excuses: next time, everything will work better promise."

Again, thank you for your review. We really appreciate it. We just updated the Smashing Links page.

I am sorry, but I am afraid that I can not agree with you. We always apprecate constructive criticism and when it comes to our monthly wallpapers selection, we feature the best designs that we receive over 30 days. And when we evaluate them, we consider many different points: not only the visual design, but the idea behind it, motivation, the message of the wallpaper. It is simply wrong to reduce the quality of the wallpaper to its visual appeal.

Also, we invest a lot of time, money and other resources into preparing the articles published on Smashing Magazine. Have you ever seen our case-studies? What about articles written by high-profile designers and developers like Christian Heilmann or Luke Wroblewski (more prominent writers are soon to be featured in the magazine)? What about the Global Web Design series? We have many new formats and we try to publish very high quality content. Just take a look around at design section or coding section. Here are examples of some of the recent articles we published:

• Better User Experience Using Storytelling
• Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices
• Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
• Showcase of Web Design in Russia
• Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues
• How To Support Internet Explorer and Still Be Cutting Edge

Would you really say that all this articles are of little value to the professional designer? Also, we release freebies and we feature some of the most useful and relevant stories of the design community in our Network section.Also, please let us know what we can do to improve the magazine. We want to be useful for the design community. And we would appreciate your feedback on how we can get better.

No, the book is not available in book stores. We wanted the book to be available exclusively on Smashing Magazine and it was our decision to not have it in book stores which is why we also do not have an ISBN nuhttp://books.slashdot.org/story/10/02/24/143203/The-Smashing-Book#mber.

I understand your point, but I think the book does a great job of covering the essential of modern web design in a compact and detailed overview. There is no general talk about the topic; because the concept of the book was suggested by our readers, we created it as they wanted to have it. Of course, the Smashing Book can not replace classic books that deal with typography or user interface design, but it gives a good overview of how websites are built today. And that's exactly what we were aiming for.