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April 14, 2008

How Did This Professor Publish Over 200,000 Books

It’s not easy to write a book. Philip M. Parker seems to have licked that problem. Mr. Parker has generated more than 200,000 books, as an advanced search on Amazon.com under his publishing company shows, making him, in his own words, “the most published author in the history of the planet.” And he makes money doing it. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school in France), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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