I swear I am going to get back to more serious postings at some point, but I found this New York Times article on Philip M. Parker quite interesting. He’s “generated” more than 200,000 books using computer programmers and the web.
I found the WorldCat Identities record for Parker to be particularly interesting, at least for the segment of Parker’s works held by libraries (7,914 publications, a small percentage of his reported output). 2610 works published just in 2004. The tag cloud of subjects associated with his books is also interesting.
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