Review of 16 Joomla Books from Amazon

Cover	Title	Author	Sales Rank *	Rating **	Reviews **
	Joomla! 1.5: A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website	Barrie M. North	6,527	4	77
	Using Joomla: Building Powerful and Efficient Web Sites	Ron Severdia Kenneth Crowder	22,554	5	3
	Joomla! For Dummies	Steve Holzner Nancy Conner	25,554	4	16
	Joomla! Start to Finish: How to Plan, Execute, and Maintain Your Web Site	Jen Kramer	30,551	5	1
	Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5	Hagen Graf	48,105	3.5	9
	Beginning Joomla!	Dan Rahmel	48,165	4.5	44
	Joomla! 1.5 Template Design ***	Tessa Blakeley Silver	48,687	3	6
	Joomla! Bible	Ric Shreves	54,447	3	2
	Beginning Joomla! Web Site Development ***	Cory Webb	79,612	3.5	6
	Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook ***	James Kennard	134,376	5	2
	Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart ***	Suhreed Sarkar	207,842	4	1
	Learning Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development ***	Joseph LeBlanc	147,799	4	9
	Joomla!: Visual QuickStart Guide	Marni Derr	407,866	3	10
	Joomla! Web Security ***	Tom Canavan	223,544	3.5	7
	Mastering Joomla! 1.5 Extension and Framework Development ***	James Kennard	225,522	3	11
	Fundamentals of Joomla! ( DVD Video Training)	Barrie M. North	516,225	4	5

* Sales ranks can jump around A LOT. These numbers will have changed by the time you read this blog post! If you want a quick and easy way to compare books, check out Titlez.com (if anyone knows a way to get data average over a longer period, please let me know!)

** Studies have shown that the first few reviews of a book are always higher than later ones. A good rule of thumb is to consider the number of reviews (i.e. consistency) along with the actual average rating.

*** These books are either ones targeted at programming/development, or ones focused on a specific subject within Joomla. As such, one needs to be careful comparing their rank to the other, more general titles.