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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 Inch
by benesch 14y ago
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-Hosiery/dp/0497731908/ref=sr_1_30?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355472210&sr=1-30 http://www.amazon.com/Report-Finished-Fabrics-Measuring-Hosi...
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Building-Excluding-Cafeteria-Restaurant/product-reviews/0497503093/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Building-Excluding-Cafeteria...
- DanBC 14y agoThe 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.
- Vivtek 14y agoThe difference being that Amazon may tolerate book spam, but it comes down hard on review spam.
- mainevent 14y agoThey 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/0870334336 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/087...
- RobAley 14y agoThats 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.
- mynameishere 14y agoThe 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/B00067F1CE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp... http://www.amazon.com/Looking-For-Best-David-Hasselhoff/dp/B0000070S1/ref=pd_sim_sbs_misc_6 http://www.amazon.com/Looking-For-Best-David-Hasselhoff/dp/B...