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15

Programmer Begins Selling 100,000 eBooks on Amazon with New Algorithm

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When authors want to make a digital ebook, they have to sit down and write and rewrite and edit and rewrite again. It often takes a fair amount of time to pump out the written work. Philip M. Parker, who spearheads ICON Group International, seeks to defy this convention. He has developed a new methodology to write non-fiction material based on an algorithm. This has allowed him to list 100,000 ebooks on Amazon and close to 700,000 in his company.

This new computer system allows a full book to be written in close to twenty minutes. It is best suited to non-fiction and obscure technical documentation. This includes business reports, technical, rare diseases, and dictionaries. The company has developed a staggering number of Websters dictionaries for various fringe languages because of the open source nature.

The essence of this computer system is tapping into massive databases of content. It avoids plagiarism by rewriting the content and cross references other subjects written about it. You won’t get a creative perspective on the subject matter, but for technical documents it is unwarranted. When studying a very specific subject, most people just want the facts, graphs, and statistics, something this system excels at.

The Singularity Hub mentioned that ”The success (and brilliance) of this system is that Parker designed the algorithms to mimic the thought process that an expert would necessarily go through in writing about a topic. It merely involves deconstructing content within a genre. He has some experience in this, as he has written at least three books the old fashioned way. It’s the recognition of how algorithmic content creation is (for the most part) that allows it to be coded as artificial intelligence.”


Michael Kozlowski (2911 Posts)

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Helix-Oxford/100001053823726 Helix Oxford

    “Unwarranted”? I agree but I do think that word means what you think it means.

  • http://goodereader.com/blog/ Good E-Reader

    inconceivable

  • http://twitter.com/Goodereadermike michael kozlowski

    Honestly, do you really need to see creative prose in hardcore technical documents? Just the facts JIM!

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  • gene grossman

    I think that some TV writers have sneaked a peek at Mr. Parker’s new algorithm, because so many sitcoms and cop shows look like they’ve been written by a computer: they all seem to follow a formula.

    On just about every police procedural, you can tell who the main guy is without watching the show, because the casting is a spoiler: just take a look at who is being featured as the ‘guest’ star for that episode.

    On the family sitcom, the husband should have a good job and then miraculously morph from brilliant to bumbling as he crosses the threshold each evening to greet his wife, from whom he gets no respect.

    I thought I was a fast writer, but it’s taken me over ten years to ‘crank’ out the 18 mysteries I’ve had published, so I wish Mr. Parker the greatest success in his marketing efforts, because sending out 10,000 complimentary review copies a week may not pay off in the long run.

    Gene Grossman – LegalMystery.com

  • http://www.facebook.com/TheTimothyBlack Timothy Black

    what I find intriguing is this video is 5 years old