Now that we dug up Jim's fictional grave and beat him with the shovel a little, it makes me wonder if such a book could ever be resurrected. You could plagiarize the heck out of Jim's books. Do you think he's going to come after you for it?
Another interest problem that might enter the picture would be uniformity of all new HL releases. By this I mean the entire run of a model all look alike, they are all made in the same place, variations are basically a thing of the past, etc. In the old days of HL's, we had California pieces, Canadian pieces, China pieces, Malaysian pieces, lightning rod pieces, different windows, different doors, wrong state designations, name misspellings, paint variations, etc. It's not happening anymore. Every collector receives the exact same piece except for the different flag#'s.
What would the author be able to write about when every piece is a "rubber stamp" of that model?
Bob