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Because I for one would hate to read ork talk throughout an ENTIRE book, and I would never even so much as look at it.

Orks can't be writin' ! Orks are for fightin' !

The alien mindset of the ork is very hard to get behind as a writer. What's more, it would be very difficult to make a story using an ork point of view and have the character be dynamic. Orks are, the way they are currently written, pretty one-dimensional. One-dimensional in the same way that dynamite is one-dimensional. I think some people view them as people, and come off disappointed when they don't get well characterized dramas featuring ork characters. I prefer to think of them as a force of nature. They aren't people, they are something that happens to people, to paraphrase a popular game reviewer. That being said, I think a book about a character around orks would be great. Perhaps one about someone who gets enslaved by the orks, and eventually escapes. I think that could be interesting.

Short stories are more viable, although we've seen damn few of them. Only one from an ork point of view that I know of, (Iron Inferno, by C.L. Werner, from the Fear the Alien anthology) and I have to say I didn't enjoy it very much. Probably because there was only single line of dialogue. (Spoiler: It's "WAAAAAAAGH!") Those are just my opinions on it. The Black Library open submission period should be beginning soon, if it hasn't already. If anyone has any good ideas for an orky sort of saga, they should totally submit!

I finally found it! I read this book Grunts! by Mary Gentle a long time ago. I could never remember the name because it is a little silly. It chronicles the boss of an Orc warband in a Fantasy world that uncovers a stash of modern weapons and the portals to other worlds, including our own, in a dragon's lair. They proceed to begin an arms race with the elves and even recruit a circa 1980s United States Marine to teach them tactics and they grow into a modern fighting force when an insect race shows up to eat everybody, This is in no way a Warhammer Fantasy or 40K book, but it does show the progression of Feral Orks to Mechanized, and is pretty funny in a few spots. Plus, I think it is the only Orc centered-book I have ever read.

Because reading an entire book written in the Ork dialect would cause massive brain hemorrhages.

I'd have to sadly agree that a whole book from the Ork point of view would turn into a chore to read.

That said the Comics are just great and so fun to read. Other than Deff Squadron you can check out Blood and Thunder. You can find it online just by searching google.

They could always make in the perspective of an kommando warboss who has taught his tribe how to speak humie and read it. That could work. Also they could get a translation of what the orks says about a campaign that he has had or stuff like that