I've found a lot of books to be hard going and just end up giving up on them in the end, using them just for quick referance. I suppose if you read ofgten and your acustomed to reading then this may be a good way to learn. One book I really did learn from is 'Adobe Premiere Classroom In A Book'. Not an advanced text by any flight but it helped me get my head round Premiere quickly and easily.

As for learning other video related things, other than an expert on the subject, I don't think you can beat the power of the internet for learning about specific topics.

Courses may be a good way to go about this, particularly a dedicated one toward this subject. I must admit though that after doing a 2 year HND in media, I've learnt more from sitting at a computer with video software and the internet than I ever did in those long drawn out lectures and I've knoiwn many others feel the same way. Maybe it's just that paricular course though, or me .