His book is a welcome update to a field that has not seen entries now for a full ten years, so long has been the time since "GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool" by Gary V. Vaughn, Ben Ellison, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor hit the shelves. Unfortunately, the publishing industry is driven by the need to turn a profit to fund its endeavors, and specialist items like this book are not obvious candidates for volume selling — which is a credit to No Starch Press' willingness to venture down this path.