Popular and prolific

Via Waterboro Library blog: James Patterson has six novels coming out this year, some written by him alone, some co-authored.
Just for fun, some statistics from the Madison Library:

• In 2006, 28 James Patterson books and audio books went out 170 times.
• In context, this means that 1 out of every 100 items checked out in 2006 (including books, audios, videos, kids’ materials, music CDs, magazines, etc.) were produced by James Patterson.
• Even more specifically, Patterson authored 3.5% of all adult fiction book and audio book items checked out in 2006, a pretty healthy percentage for one author (plus collaborators, in some cases.)