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the Penn site also has an RSS feed of new books which is very nice, although you do have to wade through the innumerable "journals of the senate of the state of new jersey" (etc.), because they apparently repertorie *everything* that can be considered a book posted anywhere on the intertubes. but you can find some unexpected stuff there. and they repertorie PG books as well, so it's very convenient.
as for making books, i only tried BD once and didn't like it at all, although i will probably end up going back to it (it's terrible for making .imp books so now i use a specific app for that, but i would like to make all formats of my books from now on, so i might not have a choice) but a tip which will probably be pertinent regardless of the program you use : if you know html, use that as your source format whenever possible, and try to have the cleanest possible code. stay well away from word if you can avoid it ; it creates the most appalling html code i've ever seen (although, i have heard that later versions have the option to "export clean html" but i don't know how that looks). also, keep a backup of your source, and save early, save often.
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