TV Tropes textbook

This is probably a ridiculous idea, but the kickstarter got me thinking about ways the foundation could keep itself funded well into the future. Imagine if someone figured out how to keep the tv tropes tone while sythesizing essential tropes into a standard educational book form. Such a book would be assigned in every film (and english) class around. $$$

There's been talk in the past about some form of book based off the wiki, but I don't think it ever went anywhere. I like the angle you're taking with it.

Maybe a textbook would work, but is that any benefit over the actual pages on the wiki?

Also, a stylebook is no joke, man. At the very least, you'd be looking at yearly editions to reflect ongoing changes in policy, style and tone (much like the Canadian Press/Associated Press stylebooks). Unless there's someone out there that's prepared to collate material and change it constantly, I'm not sure it would be much better than the pages we already have.

edited 16th Dec '14 8:40:04 AM by crazyrabbits

Well, I think we have enough Omnipresent Tropes that will never be rewritten that could easily be written about in book form. Then there's the Tropes Of Legend, most of which people need to have some passing knowledge of to make any sense of this site. And most of those are stable enough to write about.

That would at least provide us with a starting point...

Retitled the thread to give it some capitalization and moved it to Wiki Talk.

The problem is even seemingly stable tropes can change. Dead tree format has the distinct disadvantage of not being updatable. An updatable E-book for multiple platforms and possibly multiple formats could be updatable.