Have you ever noticed that the titles of books are getting longer?

Here's one of my new books:



That doesn't seem too long. But here's how the title really looks (and how it shows up in Amazon.com):


And it's not just the publisher. I also recently published this book from Apress:

And then I also co-wrote this one from No Starch Press (teach your kids to code, age 10+):

They're all pretty long, right? I think I'm going to set a personal goal to write a book with a painfully long title now. Let's see how far we can get with this.

What do you think?

   - Ninja Ed

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