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I would be for the idea, but there are many things that I am against.
1. Many of my greek memories I'd like to keep for me and my brothers alone, some people might understand that, some might not, but my greek memories are just that, mine.
2. A book like this could be display serious distortion and bia simply by stating that it would be published with no negative experiences or memories. Not all my memories of greek life are great, but in the same sense, I think it would be in a way, "sugarcoating" by sharing only positive experiences, yet that is my opinion and a lot of people probably don't feel that way. My quam with that would be, if it were to become a NY bestseller, which it could, that could come under sever criticism.
3. Like tridelta4ever stated: the majority of the book would be written by the submitters of the memories. Of course you can factor in editing and rewording, maybe writing a preface and a few memories of your own, a glossary of greek slang words and such, but it is more of a collaboration, a collection, then being written by a single person.
4. I have had things published before, not big, but nevertheless. The start up costs to have something published can be relatively cheap. In fact, a publisher may pick up the entire cost and settle for a one sum amount, a percentage or royalties. If the book were to be published w/o the buyout of a publisher, it could be somewhat costly, but not extremly. Which brings me to my point, we all spend money to make money, and I don't think that anyone would just be willing to throw several thousand dollars away without a little return in mind. A book like this could very well be a great seller. Like the thread starter stated, buying it for 10-15 bucks, that could return quite a profit on a book, considering the printing charges for that one book would be a mere percentage of the 10-15 bucks.
Again, I don't really know, I guess i'd have to know and trust the person who was putting the collaboration together in order to understand if they are trying to profit off of other people and their memories.
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