Manning also does great books.

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>Overall I definitely agree with you. One good one I can think of is Jeffrey Richter's book (updated several times) on low level .NET stuff. I know it's good because a lot of it is beyond my expertise ;-) That's actually true but the version I have still strikes me as thorough and well organized. It's like looking at a good painting. You somehow sense it's good without necessarily understanding its "meaning."
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>I trust Apress and O'Reilly pretty well, and some SAMS. Increasingly I am finding value in online courseware. For a while now I have been quite interested in ASP.NET MVC and have benefited from online tutorials from PluralSight and TekPub. (They have tutorials on a wide range of topics). Thanks once again to Charles Hankey and Craig Berntson for turning me onto PluralSight.