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The Henry Ford of Books (2014)
- Nzen 12y agotl;dr A bio on prolific author James Patterson.
- jmiwhite 12y agoThanks; useful enough to be the title.
- thinkling 12y ago> Indeed, Patterson is to publishing what Thomas Kinkade was to painting That seems like a better comparison than the Henry Ford one. It's not like Patterson is making books more affordable for people or radically changing how books are produced.
- Turing_Machine 12y agoThe Stratemeyer Syndicate (responsible for such endless series as Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc.) had this perfected long before Patterson was even born. In fact, Stratemeyer and Ford were almost exact contemporaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate