Prices are often absurdly inflated, up to the many hundreds of dollars. While, on Amazon, you can't peek inside any of the books, the product descriptions read like prose recycled from free government business or health leaflets (stuff that usually feels like it was written by a machine anyway). There seem to be a few dozen tropes which are repeated with slight variations ad nauseum. A few sample titles:

— The 2007 Report on Wood Toilet Seats: World Market Segmentation by City (330pp., $795)
— The 2007-2012 Outlook for Lemon-Flavored Bottled Water in Japan (140pp., $495)
— Avocados: A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide (108pp., $28.95)
— Brain Injuries - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References (244pp., $28.95)

In fact, there's a whole trope of titles that are guides to "internet references," which makes me wonder if Parker's machine is just scraping the entire Web for content.

Odd.  (VIA) & via GREYLODGE the GREAT