Writing a book is one of a few goals I have and would like to achieve in future. I like the idea to teach others this way and forward a little of my knowledge I have. As I know a few authors I know how time consuming this is and that it means a lot of work - though I am sure that I will enjoy it, as I already do enjoy writing articles.

As I know that some other members at EH-Net would like to write a book too or at least thought about it, I thought I could start this thread to have everything together.

Are there any members who would like to write a book seriously and would like to work together or would be interested in some kind of co-authoring (e.g that I could contribute a few chapters)?
Are there any famous authors already lurking around at EH-Net?

I am in no hurry with this, just wanted to ask prior.

I'm interested as well. This has been on my goals list for a while too. I've published a few papers, mostly in the ISSA journal.

That would be really awesome. Considering the knowledge of some people here it probably would result in a great book. I don't know if too many cooks spoil the soup..though I have read some books where many authors worked together and thought that the books were good.

Did someone already made some sort of concept or similar? I assume that most of us would be interested in writing a book about penetration testing but this covers many topics. Maybe we could do something like Gray Hat Hacking : The Ethical Hacker's Handbook which covers many different topics which are still related to each other. Just an idea..

If somewhen we really get through this and everything works out fine, I see no reason why no further books couldn't be written by us.

Nice to see that others would be interested too.

I'd be more interested in working on a gen-u-wine old fashioned paper book than an e-book 

What is ROI?

Personally I would be more interested in a printed book too, which is because I prefer to have something in my hands when I read something. Though I read much on the computer, I always prefer paper if possible.

Laz3r, I think there would be many other ways one can help with this without actually writing. Reviewing, Proof/ Beta-reading, contributing ideas and suggestions etc., so enough work would be still available.

ROI = Return on Investment

I've always been interested in this too. I understand that the direct ROI isn't good, but the indirect career investment is where the benefits would realized. Of course, calculating the return is always hard.

Id like to be involved too!  I would be interested in wrtting a few topics. What kind of book are you guys looking at writting? A general ethical hacking/penetration testing book?

A good idea would be to use an online colaboration revision type application for the writting. (Google docs?)

A good start would be to come up with a list of the people involved, a tittle and a list of topics you would like to include.