{"id":2233,"date":"2008-02-07T20:34:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T01:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=486"},"modified":"2008-02-07T20:34:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T01:34:34","slug":"speed-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/speed-writing.html","title":{"rendered":"Speed Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I encountered some type of advertisement for a particular book.  I don&#8217;t recall what the exact title was, but it was something along the lines of &#8220;The 2004 Outlook for Thingamajiggers in the United States.&#8221;  I also don&#8217;t recall the price, but it was some incredible amount of money, like $500 or so.  I remember being intrigued, as well as a little put off, by the ad, and was never quite able to wrap my brain around it.<\/p>\n<p>I think I just found out a great deal about where that book came from.  <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/story\/0,,2248179,00.html\">Speed Writing<\/a> is an article in the Guardian newspaper that details the writing and publishing of one particular author:  Philip M. Parker.  Take a look at the following numbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philip M. Parker is shown as being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/103-4486711-4927828?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Philip%20M.%20Parker\">the author of 85,747 books on Amazon.com<\/a> (at this moment).<\/li>\n<li>9,536 of those fall into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=sr_nr_n_1?ie=UTF8&amp;rs=1000&amp;rh=n%3A1000%2Cp%5F27%3APhilip%20M.%20Parker%2Cn%3A3\">Business and Investing category<\/a>, which seems to contain a great many books like the one I encountered years ago.<\/li>\n<li>These are not pamphlets or smallish books; one of the publications I checked weighs in at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/2007-2012-Outlook-Contact-Cleansing-Solutions\/dp\/0497524333\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1202434079&amp;sr=1-2\">710 pages<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Parker claims that his total number of published books is in the area of 200,000 (per the <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/egweekly\/story\/0,,2248179,00.html\">Guardian article<\/a>), an<\/li>\n<li>It takes him approximately 20 minutes to write each book, using a machine he invented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article doesn&#8217;t go into any detail about the machine; it is saving that for a follow-up article next week.  As the article was published last Tuesday, I expect it will be five more days before we learn more.<\/p>\n<p>found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/book_machine.html\">if:book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I encountered some type of advertisement for a particular book. I don&#8217;t recall what the exact title was, but it was something along the lines of &#8220;The 2004 Outlook for Thingamajiggers in the United States.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/speed-writing.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2962],"tags":[3514,4605,4692,3739,3740,3009,3021],"class_list":["post-2233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-publishing","tag-amazoncom","tag-author","tag-particular-author","tag-philip-m-parker","tag-the-guardian","tag-united-states","tag-usd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-A1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}