Book By Committee

Consultant (I think) Barry Libert is one of the names on the book We are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business, but the number of contributors runs into the thousands. That's because Libert and his other named co-author Jon Spector used a wiki, inviting contributions from what eventually became 4,000 people, to cover how businesses can work with communities. However, the question is what a contribution actually is. In an interview, Libert said:

To be honest, we got more feedback about the book writing process and the tools we used, i.e. the wiki, than we did on the actual prose. We had over 250 blog posts about the project and some provided positive and negative feedback. Most were curious as to whether or not the project would succeed.

Hey, I said it was a book by committee. Sounds like most committees I've seen.