Automaton author writes up a storm  Professor Philip Parker
(right) and some of his titles.  Professor Philip Parker (right)
and some of his titles.  Asher Moses April 21, 2008  In less
than a decade, Philip Parker has become the most published
author in history, with hundreds of thousands of books to his
name.  Amazon.com alone lists him as the author of 85,737
different titles on specialist topics such as childhood acute
lymphoblastic leukemia, hemochromatosis and the import and
export market for women's textile suits and costumes in the
Middle East.  Each book takes less than an hour to write and
Parker's titles sell for between $US24.95 ($26.60) and $US795
each.   The books - typically non-fiction and on extremely niche
topics - are compiled on-demand, based on publicly available
information found on the internet and in offline sources.
Parker was issued a patent for the technology in September last
year and has refined the process to such an art he even used his
digital army of PC-powered "authors" to