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How well are the sources curated? One of the sample books is a medical text to be used by doctors etc. I would hate to see parts of that book sourced from unreliable places.

Seeing as this thing can apparently put together books on new topics on the fly I am highly doubtful of the quality.

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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...

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.

The difference being that Amazon may tolerate book spam, but it comes down hard on review spam.

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...

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.

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...

You should be. If it could produce books of any quality it would be useful for fantastically more profitable things than spamming amazon.

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