A nice addtion to the boards here might be a new forum for book and tutorial reviews and announcements. This would be nice in that it would give people a place to go to examine books and get real user opinions before buying them.
For more control, and to avoid getting flooded by publishers and authors, the initial post in each thread could be made by a moderator from their own or a submitted review about a specific book/tutorial and then all the discussion would follow. Another advantage would be potential revenue from people following links and buying the books.
Just my $0.02
Dave