Robots wrote my bestseller
Submitted by mwilliams on Tue, 2008-04-15 01:47.Philip M. Parker has written over 200,000 books, and all of them have turned a profit. How does he do it? With the magic of computers.
Most of the titles so far are textbooks generated by scripts searching the Internet for information on the subject, but plans are already in hand for a series of romance novels and volumes of poetry.
Some might consider this cheating.
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He ain't even close to a Turing machine yet!
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Booksquare has some good commentary: http://www.booksquare.com/nyt-confuses-authors-computers-insults-women/
"I will accept that he compiles information. I will not accept that he has “authored” books (and, to remind y’all that the ”’NYT”’ remains in the running, the sheer lack of questioning this astounds even the most jaded soul)."
"The article does not mention how or when Parker credits his sources. It merely buys into his assertions without question. It buys into Parker’s world-view of authorship."
Not only not crediting sources, I'm betting he rips off copyrighted material. Now that he's been profiled, I bet he is on the receiving end of some lawsuits. That is, if he's really selling much.
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Good point. I understand he sells only few hundred copies of each title, but it's enough to get him in crap. Even if he only sold one copy, someone's going to be upset.
There is no thief like a bad book
--Italian Proverb