How many people does it take to make a book?

>I just turned in the acknowledgments to my editor for "The Mockingbirds." Want to guess how many people I thanked in them?Forty-eight people. I thanked forty-eight people BY NAME.Wow. I am either excessive or I enjoy an embarassment of riches in friends, family and professionals who made my dream a reality. I like to think it's the latter.Because while writing is a solitary task, conducted alone at a computer, these acknowledgments are a reminder that none of that alone-time-with-a-computer ...