Why are so many chess books written about the same thing?
Some of the books for beginners:
Checkmate!: My First Chess Book (Garry Kasparov)
Chess for Juniors: A Complete Guide for the Beginner (Robert M. Snyder)
Chess for Everyone: A Complete Guide for the Beginner (Robert M. Snyder)
Learn Chess: A Complete Course (O'd Alexander C. H. and T. J. Beach)
Chess For Beginners (Israel A. Horowitz and Sol Horowitz)
Chess for Beginners: Picture Guide (Al Horowitz)
Beginner's Guide to Winning Chess (Fred Reinfeld)
Beginner's Guide to Playing Chess (Susan Caldwell)
Every Great Chess Player Was Once a Beginner (Brian Byfield)
Checkmate - A Beginners Guide To Chess (Adam Stryvnski)
How to Play and Win at Chess: Moves, rules and strategy for beginners: a practical guide to the game, with over 250 color photographs and illustrations (John Saunders)
Square One: A Chess Drill Book for Beginners (Bruce Pandolfini)
Chess Workbook for Children: The Chess Detective's Introduction to the Royal Game (Todd Bardwick)
Concise Chess: The Compact Guide for Beginners (John Emms)
Teaching Chess in the 21st Century: Strategies And Connections to a Standards-based World (Todd Bardwick)
Beginner's Chess Course (Enno Heyken
The Beginner's Book of Chess (Frank Hollings)
Move One: A Chess Course for Beginners (Richard James)
Chess for beginners (P. H. Clarke)
Chess for Beginners (E. E. Cunnington)
Chess: A Beginner's Guide (Stanley Morrison)
Chess for Beginners (Max Blau)
Chess: Beginner to Expert (Larry Evans)
Chess for Beginners and the Beginnings of Chess (Robert Blair Swinton)
Chess for Beginners: In a Series of Progressive Lessons, Showing the Most Approved Methods of Beginning and Ending the Game; with Various Situations and Checkmates (William Lewis)
Chess for Beginners (D. Brine Pritchard)
Chess for Absolute Beginners (Raymond D. Keene)
How to play chess: An elementary text book for beginners, which teaches chess by a new, easy and comprehensive method (Emanuel Lasker)
And that was only 3 of all pages at Amazon.com
I'm tired...
