Hammersley, Ben. Developing feeds with RSS and Atom. Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly, 2005. ISBN 0-596-00881-3.

Summary: An overview of the most popular formats for syndication and the mechanics of using them to construct useful syndication feeds. Though just now published, the description of Atom is already somewhat out of date, because of the appearance (in July) of the Atom 1.0 standard.

This book is, however, extremely useful to programmers because of the range of examples it covers and the completeness of the implementations of those examples. The author stimulates the programmer's imagination by showing how a variety of applications can be constructed simply by using syndication in unconventional ways.