Monday, April 21, 2008

Can you write 200.000 books? He did it.


Posted by Leo - 20600788


I am still thinking about one New York Times article I have read last week. Internet is a phenomenon that is giving birth to so many great business ideas every day.


I am amazed about Mr. Philip M. Parker’s invention. He created a company which is making tons of money selling books on demand.But that is only the beginning, because in some of the books that he sells, he is the writer; but mostly of the entire library that he also offers through Amazon is written by computers.Is this another fiction article? Completely not.


Mr. Parker is a computer savvy that created a software which scans millions of articles on the Internet and then using “artificial intelligence” he use that collected information to create books, in fact, his computers do the job.It is really inspirational to have these computer made books, even when some people can think that this “artificial” material is not worth it.


There are some examples where some expertise readers appointed some mistakes in the material, saying that it does not have any accuracy and they contacted Mr. Parker who answer that most of books he publish are not for expertise target, he better focus in the people with none or few computer skills, that is why the books are a success.
Finally, I welcome this new project and I wish Handong students can be known in the world soon coming up with ideas like this, changing the world for good.


Check and be also amazed, here the link for the article:

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