Re: Re: Profitable 200K Worst Sellers

From: "chris_smith_canada"
> --- In [email protected], ficsprout wrote:
>
>> Found an entertaining article this morning about a
>> man who has written over 200,000 books :O and who
>> unbelievably turns a profit on these worst sellers.
>
> Maybe we find out if authors can be Turing'd.
>
> ( http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/turingd.php )
>
> My fave quote...
>
>> "Do you think one of them is Shakespeare?" he was asked.
>> "No," he said. "Only because I haven't done sonnets yet."
>
> Somewhere around I have a program that could generate Urdu
> limericks ... or was it Sanskrit? Hmmm ... perhaps an ebook
> of Sanskrit sounding poetry would be a good way to dip a
> very small toe in the authorial waters ...
>
>

;-)

If I remember correctly he has written a program that strips 
statistical information from any source on the net and fits it 
into a template 'book'.   Some are priced in the hundreds of 
dollars (US).

For those in need of collections of stats on a subject I suppose 
it might be useful.   But it does remind me of Disraeli:  'Lies, 
damned lies and statistics'.

Joseph Harris 


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