Could you make the book for noobs available to everyone as like the /minecart or /boat command?? Then when a new person asks a dumb (there are no dumb questions), the staff can have them type /helpbook and get the book with all the rules and links. They have a better chance of reading it if they need the info. I agree with naithantu in that its doubtful the new people will read it until they actually need the info. There is already plenty of rules and tutorials that nobody reads now.