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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by benesch on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:05AM (#4920031)
Some of these books are absolutely ridiculous. I can't imagine there's a market for "Finished Weft Knit Fabrics Made of Broad Fabrics Measuring at Least 12 Inches Wide That Have Been Knit and Finished in the Same Establishment Excluding Hosiery: World Market Segmentation by City."

I have a feeling the Amazon reviews for his books may be particularly unrepresentative of their quality—something strikes me as sarcastic about most of the reviews... [1]

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Report-Finished-Fabrics-Measuring-Hosi...

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Building-Excluding-Cafeteria...

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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by DanBC on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:25AM (#4920070)
The title you give feels a bit like a parody of the old soviet regime's 5 year plans.

About the reviews: Now he's sorted out book creation he can work on review creation. Disturbingly, there may be more money in that (from shady characters) than in book creation.

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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by Vivtek on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:47AM (#4920107)
The difference being that Amazon may tolerate book spam, but it comes down hard on review spam.
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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by mainevent on Friday December 14, 2012 @04:28AM (#4920195)
They remind me of the reviews on John W. Trimmer's classic "How to Avoid Huge Ships" [0]

[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/087...

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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by RobAley on Friday December 14, 2012 @08:16AM (#4920755)
Thats the downfall of systems like this. The algorithms don't (yet) have the intuition that humans do, a human creating that book would instinctively know that the market needs that data segmented by the zodiac sign of the fabric company owner, not by city.
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Re:Patented Book Writing System Creates, Sells Hundreds Of T... by mynameishere on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:38PM (#4923184)
The reviews are clearly sarcastic. It's an amazon tradition, and they usually put up with it.

http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/Looking-For-Best-David-Hasselhoff/dp/B...

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