Phil
April 27, 2008, 04:02 AM
Good ol' Public Domain... And other interesting methods and ideas...
A little food for thought...
Become a Compiler... ;)
If you can Copy & Paste it's definetely an Excellent business model to Duplicate...
Just make sure it's Public Domain and Not the nytimes... :)
But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=1&ex=136
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
Phil
A little food for thought...
Become a Compiler... ;)
If you can Copy & Paste it's definetely an Excellent business model to Duplicate...
Just make sure it's Public Domain and Not the nytimes... :)
But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?_r=1&ex=136
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SkS5PkHQphY
Phil
