A sad day for web publishing

Today has undoubtedly been a black day for book publishing, web designers, and developers. *Three* major imprints that specialized in web design and development book publishing have closed up shop, leaving a huge, gaping hole in the knowledge network. First, I heard about “Glasshaus”:http://www.glasshaus.com/ : bq. “It’s with huge sadness, that I tell you that the bank pulled the plug on glasshaus today.” Then, it was “Friends of Ed”:http://www.friendsofed.com/ : bq. “Friends of Ed is dead.” And according to folks on the “Webdesign-l”:http://www.webdesign-l.com/ mailing list, programming imprint giant “Wrox”:http://www.wrox.com/ has also ceased operations. (Edit : someone on WD-L just posted copies of emails sent from all three companies - it looks like the parent company that owned all three, _Peer Information_, was declared insolvent today.) I guess it’s safe to say now that I had just started the initial process of working on a book for Glasshaus; obviously it’s questionable if the project will continue at all with all of this doom and gloom. <heaves heavy sigh>