The readers have spoken - the rating is 5 stars!

Now that my book, Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting: Beginner's Guide, has been out for about three weeks, some number of people have bought and read the book and the feedback is in!

Like the Opening Night of a Broadway Show

I understand that back in the old days this is the opening night routine for Broadway Shows. All the major Broadway theater critics would be invited to opening night. After the show, they would immediately run off to quickly write their reviews and turn them into their newspaper or television outlets for immediate publication and broadcast. The Broadway show's producers, cast, and creative team would all wait on pins and needles at the post-show opening night party until the reviews came out late that night...Though there was neither a show nor a party for my book, I certainly waited on pins and needles. And now the reader feedback is in, at least the initial version of it.

Customer Review on Amazon.com Books

Amazon customer Mark Mueller wrote: "We have a farm which is generating revenue from egg sales...and we hope to sell other agricultural products as well. I wanted to move beyond the cash envelope and receipt shoe box in order to work towards profitability..."Gnucash 2.4 Small Business Accounting" is just what I needed. The author assumes no knowledge of bookkeeping and teaches the concepts while teaching how to use Gnucash. Given the subject matter, the book is surprisingly readable...and was able to follow the book quite easily without hands-on experience...The author is very good about covering how to recover from errors...All in all, an excellent, readable introduction to small business accounting as well as Gnucash."

Reader feedback on GnuCash user mailing list

Kim Wood wrote on the GnuCash user mailing list: "I have bought the book today (downloadable PDF version), and can report it is very comprehensive in content, as well as professionally written and laid out. It has 324 pages, plenty of graphics/screen grabs, and is very useful companion when using GnuCash for small business...The first few chapters cover the basics, and it builds from there...It is everything that the user needs...I am very happy with the purchase...Highly recommended."

Reviewer feedback on the GnuCash developer mailing list

Book Reviewer and lead GnuCash developer Christian Stimming wrote: "I can whole-heartedly recommend this book. It's well written, fun to read, and covers a very wide range of topics including plenty advanced topics..."

Feedback on Twitter

Michael Matson @TheGreenBuilder tweeted:

"Excellent! Good work."

Thanks Mark, Kim, Christian and Michael!