[nathanbarry]

I think you're right. I found the article I was thinking of:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.htm...

Here's the section:

"WHAT IS PERHAPS most remarkable about the Patterson empire is the sheer volume of books it produces. The nine hardcovers a year are really only the beginning. Nearly all of those books are published a second and third time, first as traditional paperbacks, then as pocket-size, mass-market paperbacks. “Scarcely a week goes by when we aren’t publishing something by James Patterson,” Young told me, only half-joking."