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Cheesy Book Titles Ranks Highest

March 27, 2009 - 10:18am — birdie

A heavyweight study of the future of soft cheese has won Britain's annual competition to find the year's oddest book title.

"The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais," by Philip M. Parker won the Diagram Prize, awarded Friday by trade magazine The Bookseller (and even more here).

The runner-up was primate study "Baboon Metaphysics," by Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth.

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March 27, 2009 - 11:10am — Walt

Parker should be ineligible

Phillip M. Parker doesn't write books; he has a book-writing machine (that is, set of databases & algorithms) and claims to have "written" 200,000 books--probably even more by now. (Almost all very high-priced, and it's questionable whether some of them have ever existed even in an edition of one--they're pretty much all generated-on-order.)

So "his" book titles are going to be extremely obscure and should be regarded as irrelevant to actual publishing. (See "When is a book not a book?" in Cites & Insights June 2008 or the Wikipedia entry for Phillip M. Parker.)

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