How to Write 200,000 Books

Writing a book can be hard. You have to pick a title, cover art and compile a table of contents. If you want it in a Library it has to be assigned a numerical code (ISBN) not to mention the weeks, months or even years of actual writing. Philip M. Parker has found an easier way. He has generated over 200,000 books making him, "The most published author in the history of the planet." He has created computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject and works with a team of programmers and 60-70 computers to produce such page turners as "The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India." (144 pages at a very reasonable price of $495). Philip admits that many of his "books" are only printed when a customer buys one. I can't wait for "Samzenpus's Email correspondence with his mother from 2007-2008". I hear she figured out how to change her background image all by herself.

Sounds like an incredible waste

[op12]

...of computing power. Couldn't he do something more productive?

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[soulfury]

If this story is actually true, then they could use this technology for generating spam e-mails and web pages.

Immoral

[mwvdlee]

Creating those books isn't, but selling them to people, knowing fully well these books are of inferior quality _is_. It's just as immoral as knowingly writing crappy books manually and charging money for it.

Wait a minute...

[the 1337 ag3nt]

Technically, shouldn't the 60-70 computers get the record?