The Author with the 107,131 Books

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WickFlick

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Has anyone around here come across Philip M Parker?
This guy invented a system to generate books.
Just did a quick search on Amazon and he currently has 107,131 books to his name.
Found some older articles on him from the New York Times

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and has a video on youtube explaining his patented system:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY"]YouTube - ‪Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship.‬‏[/ame]


The subject is already a few years old, but since I didn't find any results on his name in the forum, I thought some of you guys might be interested in it.
 


WickFlick said:
Has anyone around here come across Philip M Parker?
This guy invented a system to generate books.
Just did a quick search on Amazon and he currently has 107,131 books to his name.
Found some older articles on him from the New York Times

WebCite query result

and has a video on youtube explaining his patented system:
YouTube - ‪Patent on "Long Tail" for automated content authorship.‬‏


The subject is already a few years old, but since I didn't find any results on his name in the forum, I thought some of you guys might be interested in it.
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More important question is - how much money is he making from this faggotry?
 
Looks to me like he is pulling decent cash. Most of the data seems to be taken from public databases, enhanced by some basic statistical functions such as forecasts.


He is basically gambling on the fact that some idiot is looking for an obscure subject and his book is among the very few available that are actually related to the subject. Plus some very obscure subjects are highly priced - pulling in $300+ per sale. This brings the customers down to mostly institutional buyers (e.g. libraries, corporations), thus minimizes refunding. Since it is all print on demand based it seems like a really smart scheme.
 
I'm sure someone somewhere has already done this on the internet, like scraping a shit load of sites and coming up with 200 000 new websites...

This guy is what I would call a offline scaper, quite ingenious I might add.
 
offline scraper - lololo
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