The book I was referring to was Renderosity's first book. I think it would go a long way toward making their point about charging if there was some success stories told about the artists in that one.

Clarification about 'Renderosity's first book' -- "Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity" was not published BY Renderosity. It was published by AAPPL and HarperCollins Publishers.

Nor, in fact, did Renderosity have very much to do with it except to grant (quite graciously, I might add) us permission to use their trademarked community name on the cover, and also provided the information about this fine community to include in the book as well.

It was the community members themselves that give us the basis for our first group of selected artists (all members of Renderosity, of course!).

And, the book was really a result, just as it says in the introduction, of John Grant and myself realizing that there was plenty of room for a serious treatment worthy of any fine artist's coffee table. Most of what we'd seen really hadn't made a dent in trying to introduce the non-computer-savvy to all the wonderful styles and "things" you can create using your computer as an artistic medium.

The book, incidentally, has garnered good reviews all around, even from reviewers like Locus. So, personally, I am tickled to death with how it's been going so far :-)