There's an interesting challenge in writing a good book about programming. At a certain point, you'll lose the newbies and alienate the technical. Below the line is a safe introductory book, above it is aimed at a smaller crowd. We had an opportunity review No Starch Press' Object-Oriented PHP, and found it fits nicely into the gap. 
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What constitutes "adformation?" Any product that gets a positive review? Or perhaps you'd rather not see reviews at all? Or better yet, perhaps you'll buy the books and hardware and send them to us for review - you know, to create an unbiased ground zero. Sound fair?
We review products all the time, and I've never once been paid for work on OSNews.
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I agree with you, Adam. If you look at the comments both slight and I wrote above entitled See also..., you will notice how both of us were voted down for what I felt was insightful information. This wasn't adformation, but rather our own personal opinions. I would've killed for this column and our types of comments when I was searching for a book covering this topic. Instead, I was forced to search online for (what I felt was) the best starting point.
I hope people can understand that when I post a reference to something, it is anything but advertising. Notice how I never even referenced a web link in my post. I left it up to the reader to perform their own additional research, giving them only a starting point to something that has helped me finally grasp the concept of object oriented programming and patterns.
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I expected it would be a free ebook. Anyway, I like these books. I also recommend "Learning PHP5" from O'Reilly.