Year's Oddest Title Prize Goes to Dairy Carton Book. "To those outside dairy (or container) circles, a book called 'The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais' tends to provoke more questions than it resolves. Such as: Why fromage frais? And: '60-Milligram' — is that a misprint?"
This earlier NYT article provide some background on the winning "author."
"... it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker ... has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one."
Ah, I thought I remembered him. They're not books, they're "books."