Poland has a large and active Blender community, and now Kamil Kuklo and Jarosław Kolmaga have written the first Polish Blender book. It is now available for ordering.

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Spanish publisher Anaya Multimedia has translated Tony Mullen's 'Introducing Character Animation with Blender' into Spanish.

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A new book called "Starter Kit Blender", has been recently published by Pearson/Campus Press.

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Olivier Saraja wrote to inform us of the fact that 'La 3D Libre avec Blender' is now in its second edition. It has been fully updated to be compliant with Blender 2.44.

Do you remember Ka-ra?

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Tony Mullen's new Blender book, 'Bounce, Tumble, and Splash!' is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon.

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Finally, after days of packing and packing "The Essential Blender" book is on its way to everyone who ordered one. Over 1500 books are traveling all over the world now. And this week or next week you can expect your book in your own mailbox. We wish you good fun with it and many creative hours.

Anja & Anne,
the packing team of
Blender e-shop

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The Brazilian Blender book “Blender 3D – Guia do Usuário”, it gains one second edition in less than eleven months! With the first edition sold out in April, I have been updating the book content for the latest Blender release. Last week, the publisher (Novatec) just release the second edition.
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We received word from Ton that Essential Blender is as good as ready to be shipped. Ton writes:

Right now the CD's are being inserted, and books get packed. Next week people can expect the books getting in the mailbox!

[insert obligatory remark to support the Blender Foundation by ordering this book ;-)]

A little while ago, I received a copy of Mobile 3D Graphics: Learning 3D Graphics with the Java™ Micro Edition from Thomson Course Technology, a publisher of a variety of technology and graphics-related books. Being eager to delve into the subject myself and knowing that there two chapters of the book devoted to the use of Blender for mobile 3D applications, I was very interested in seeing what the author, Claus Höfele, had to offer on the subject. As it turns out, the answer is "quite a bit."

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According to Blender.org printing of the new Blender manual has begun.

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Starting this summer another Blender book will be in progress by the talented Tony Mullen. And this one looks to be an exciting one. The one thing that really makes me smile about this book is that it will be in full color. And it will cover some of the deep mysteries involving simulations (hair, particles, etc.) in Blender.
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A new Blender book has been published in Spain. It's title is "Blender. Curso de Iniciación" (Blender, an introduction course)

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A few months ago, I spotted a French book called 'Blender et POV-Ray - La 3D en toute liberté' on Amazon.com. After looking around in the French community I found Michaël Thelliez who was prepared to check the book out for us, so I ordered him a copy. Here's his report.

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Coming in May of this year! From the Blender e-shop:

'Essential Blender', the next book from the Blender Foundation, is your official guide to learning the fundamentals of this open and free 3D software suite. The book can be used as a step-by-step guide for people new to Blender or new to the latest changes in Blender. This book is the ideal companion for the previous 2.3 Blender guide.

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One of our readers pointed out sometime ago that Portuguese readers have a lot more books available, yes you read right.

Seems like we missed one Portuguese Blender book, but luckily someone was kind enough to point it out.

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Hello Blenderers,

It's been quite a wait, but at last Introducing Character Animation with Blender has hit the shelves! As of today, Amazon.comis listing the book as available. They've also enabled the feature of letting you search inside the book online, so you can see what you're getting into before placing an order. Still more good news is that as I write this, they still seem to be offering a 34% discount.

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If you're into game design with Blender, then here's a valuable addition to your library. 'Designing Arcade Game Graphics' by Ari Feldman has been released for free by Wordware Publishing.

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