The price on this is SO HIGH that I tried to google it, thinking that maybe it was some kind... I dunno, trade publication for people who work in industrial scale food production? But absolutely the only links online to this work, and the other ones for this title over different time ranges, are on Amazon.
This one book has five separate reviews by the same Amazon account. And one review that very clearly just copy-pasted text from a Wikipedia page about the Richter scale for earthquakes.
I think that someone is gaming the Amazon recommendation system for this stuff, for take ebooks, but how the hell can they benefit from this?
"Robert C Ross VINE VOICE 3.0 out of 5 starsUncertain about the currency of the information February 18, 2016 I am mentoring husbands caring for their wives, and one of my "clients" asked me for information on this terrible syndrome.
I found this book at a local library, checked out the bona fides of the author, and was surprised to find that he has "written" 100,000 books on factual subjects. His secret is a computer program that gathers public information from many sources; the book is then printed on demand when someone orders it.
It's very tough to figure out whether this information is accurate or not. The book reads well according to my client, and I glanced and agree; I don't really have the necessary expertize to judge. I wish there were more citations to the sources of information so I could make an informed judgment.
In any event, judge for yourself. I hope this background will help you make an informed decision.
Robert C. Ross February 2016
Note: "The New York Times" wrote an article about Philip M. Parker in 2008; he received patents on his technology in 2000:
"But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), 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."
He can take any topic and turn it into a book. Each of Parker's books takes 13 minutes to create and US $0.12 - $0.50 in electricity to produce. Some books can take 2-3 hours depending on the topic. Sales are on-demand printing and through Kindle.
This is honest to God one of the most fascinating mysteries I've ever accidentally found on the internet. I wonder how he parses the information into well-reading, logically structured nonfiction. Just, wow, I don't know if I love or hate Mister Phillip M. Parker and his genius/scammer career.
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Date: 29 Jul 2019 18:11 (UTC)no subject
Date: 29 Jul 2019 18:18 (UTC)-intoni
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Date: 29 Jul 2019 18:41 (UTC)The price on this is SO HIGH that I tried to google it, thinking that maybe it was some kind... I dunno, trade publication for people who work in industrial scale food production? But absolutely the only links online to this work, and the other ones for this title over different time ranges, are on Amazon.
SO, I poked around on Amazon's listing for the author, Phillip M. Parker, Ph.D, and it's SO WEIRD - https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3APhilip+M.+Parker&s=relevancerank&lo=list&page=4&qid=1564425254&text=Philip+M.+Parker&ref=sr_pg_3
There are seventy five pages of publications in this person's name, all on completely unrelated topics. Some of them are just rando stuff, but some of them actually have reviews, like this German-English crossword book -
https://www.amazon.com/Websters-English-German-Crossword-Puzzles/dp/0497254247/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1564425437&refinements=p_27%3APhilip+M.+Parker&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Philip+M.+Parker
This one book has five separate reviews by the same Amazon account. And one review that very clearly just copy-pasted text from a Wikipedia page about the Richter scale for earthquakes.
I think that someone is gaming the Amazon recommendation system for this stuff, for take ebooks, but how the hell can they benefit from this?
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Date: 29 Jul 2019 18:51 (UTC)In this item, here - https://www.amazon.com/Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome-Bibliography-Dictionary-Researchers/dp/0497112051/ref=sr_1_12?qid=1564425437&refinements=p_27%3APhilip+M.+Parker&s=books&sr=1-12&text=Philip+M.+Parker
"Robert C Ross
VINE VOICE
3.0 out of 5 starsUncertain about the currency of the information
February 18, 2016
I am mentoring husbands caring for their wives, and one of my "clients" asked me for information on this terrible syndrome.
I found this book at a local library, checked out the bona fides of the author, and was surprised to find that he has "written" 100,000 books on factual subjects. His secret is a computer program that gathers public information from many sources; the book is then printed on demand when someone orders it.
It's very tough to figure out whether this information is accurate or not. The book reads well according to my client, and I glanced and agree; I don't really have the necessary expertize to judge. I wish there were more citations to the sources of information so I could make an informed judgment.
In any event, judge for yourself. I hope this background will help you make an informed decision.
Robert C. Ross
February 2016
Note: "The New York Times" wrote an article about Philip M. Parker in 2008; he received patents on his technology in 2000:
"But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), 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."
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html
He can take any topic and turn it into a book. Each of Parker's books takes 13 minutes to create and US $0.12 - $0.50 in electricity to produce. Some books can take 2-3 hours depending on the topic. Sales are on-demand printing and through Kindle.
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Date: 30 Jul 2019 08:03 (UTC)