I've just finished to read this post on
Michael Kaplan's blog and I've
discovered a thing that is incredible: the publishing company Wiley
(that now has all the Wrox titles) seems to have a new policy where
authors of technical books about Microsoft technologies must be Microsoft
MVPs or they cannot author a book
This is undoubtely a nonsense for me... the MVP title doesn't automatically
reflects the capacity to write a good book I think, and there are so many
experts out that are not MVP (only because they've not too much time to
spend on newsgroups or communities) but that are surely more expert on writing a
good book than an MVP.
This policy is undoubtely too much restrictive and there's no reason to adopt
it. Do you think that book's quality will be increased by doing this? I'm not so
sure... but maybe Wiley loves so much the MVP logo? 
Microsoft is not on this direction so I don't understand why a company like
Wiley must adopt this policy. Wrox was a good company with
lots of quality books, but how much of them was written by MVPs? Not too much I
think and if we're aligned to this philosophy we've to think that past
Wrox books (now under Wiley) are not good books. So, should I
trash the Wrox books that I've on my library? 
Wiley, please don't make this error...