MetaFilter posts tagged with bookpublishing

Books: increasing authorship and decreasing readership

stbalbach — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:26:15 -0800

You're an Author? Me too! The trend of increasing authorship and decreasing readership.

Philip M. Parker writes and publishes over 85,000 books on Amazon

stbalbach — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:11:53 -0800

Philip M. Parker ^[1]^[2] has written and published over 85,000 books on Amazon in the past few years, although by his own count the total published is over 200,000. He is like a writing machine - in fact, he has created a machine that churns out an original book about every 20 minutes. A few sample titles: * The 2007 Report on Wood Toilet Seats: World Market Segmentation by City (330pp., $795) * The 2007-2012 Outlook for Lemon-Flavored Bottled Water in Japan (140pp., $495) * Avocados: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide (108pp., $28.95) * Brain Injuries - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References (244pp., $28.95) (Via)

Call Marge, Re: horror

The Card Cheat — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:30:54 -0800

Planet Simpson. An author's-eye look at the warts-and-all business side grind of book publishing, complete with a FedEx horror story, Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood being asked "So…do you sing, or do you play an instrument?", and the immortal interview question "Doooode: which character on The Simpsons is the hottest?" (Note: one mildly NSFW photo on the main page).