<p>I’m not joking. I’m a writer and with graduation and end of college search in sight – I’m looking for my next project. I need a new distraction – can’t spend all of my time lurking these boards. Or can I? Would there be any benefit to coalescing the combined wisdom (and angst!) of posters to these boards? I vaguely remember some mention of such an idea a while back, but it was laughed off, I think when someone raised the issue of how the royalties would be split! I’m only half laughing. Thoughts anyone?</p>
<p>There are so many college books out there. IMO, you’d need an unusual angle. Golden sure got attention with “Price” and raised the ire of the middle class, but I don’t think his book sold as well as projected. </p>
<p>Sorting out the misguided advice in a majority of posts would probably not leave much that isn’t already in print. CC seems popular as an entertainment destination rather than a site with depth of info for students. There are more “feel good” posts than truly helpful ones on most boards.</p>
<p>It’s the parents who are all over it for info, especially regarding $$.</p>
<p>Also, if there’s a CC book, wouldn’t the rights to it be owned by CCs owners?</p>
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Which CC are you reading, Suze? Sounds like you’re spending a but too much time with us loafin’ 'rents in the cafe! ;)</p>
<p>When I came to CC for much needed info., I found it, a hundred times over. By the same token, when I now come for camaraderie with some intelligent and fascinating friends, I find that too. Does one (or SHOULD one) preclude the other? 
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<p>“Feel good” posts? Gawd, I HOPE SO!! The college application process, the tenure of our children at college, their grad school application processes, and their career paths hold enough angst. The “feel good” posts aren’t fluff, Suze. They’re essential for our sanity! 
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<p>BTW, you’re missing the boat on what would make the <em>real</em> CC story… ;)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Ivoryk, there might indeed be a book in it, if you can take the base foundation and inject some fantasy into it. For example, I was contemplating writing a book about a priest in some order or another - I was going to pick franciscans or jesuits etc. Anyway, I was going to have a novitiate end up with a computer and internet access in his cell (in spite of the vows of poverty), and absolutely no other disstractions of any kind, and, discover an internet site something like CC but more for aspirants to lofty career paths within the priesthood and perhaps eventual sainthood, spiced up with back-stabbing colleagues in the Vatican, and, along the way, he starts thread after thread about “will I get in” (his “dream” destination being something as basic as perhaps a wealthier parish, at least to start with), then, he gets snared into “their” version of PM, which of course typically evolves into email and IM, and in some cases telephone and in person meetings (where the “real” business gets done, both in CC and in real life). Along the way he gets caught up in a money laundering ring, and basically ends up leading an international plot to steal money and manages to feed a ton of poor people with it. This of course gets him into some significant hot water with the Mendellin cartel, who manages to slip a ton of money past OFAC (this actually did just happen), because he’s converting some of their best strategic partners and customers to the straight and narrow path…he cannot figure out what to do next, so, he starts yet another thread, and fortunately his version of CC, just like the original, has this healthy population of lawyers, and so they offer lots of advice, most of which he argues with, and then promptly disregards…</p>
<p>I’m too lazy to write the book though (exhausted just writing the post), so, feel free to steal my idea lol.</p>
<p>Berurah, I did note that I believe parents do get info here. Much more so than students who get a lot of "of course you’ll get into Yale with a 2100’…I do read the parents board for info.</p>
<p>I don’t think a how-to-get-into-college book, no. Too much information available from other sources. But a pastiche or slice of life, maybe. I’ve always thought almost any message board would make a good “Voices of…” kind of book. Possibly even some armchair ethnography or sociology.</p>
<p>One big obstacle, unless you do something heavily fictionalized like LTS suggests, is posts themselves seem to be copyrighted to CC, according to the TOU.</p>
<p>I think there is an angle re “parents letting go”</p>
<p>little about that actually on the bookshelf</p>
<p>But a book about how parents who have been much more involved with their kids, than they expected, and what they turn their interests to once their kids are “launched”</p>
<p>( which would give the opportunity for an update 
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<p>Update? We’re all still here!</p>
<p>silly 
I meant a * new* edition!</p>
<p>Actually a fiction book about this board may be a interesting.</p>