You’ve got to read this NYT piece on entrepreneur Philip M. Parker to believe it. Parker has written and published some 200,000 books via Amazon.com—making him the most published person on the planet—using computer algorithms to mine publicly available information. Among Parker’s current projects are books of poetry, crossword puzzles, and, of course, romance novels. This latter genre reminds me of the opening sentence of Lewis Hyde’s book The Gift, where Hyde writes, “At the corner drugstore my neighbors and I can now buy a line of romantic novels written according to a formula developed through market research.” Parker is more succinct. Referring to the nature of the algorithm used to write the steamy books, he says, “There are only so many body parts.”
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