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Paulo Coelho: Free Books for Online Alchemy

by Jordan Yerman | January 25, 2008 at 08:23 am

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So giving it away is not just for those wanting to get the word out... The movers and shakers of the literary world are getting onboard as well, including Paulo Coelho:

Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is using BitTorrent and other filesharing networks as a way to promote his books. His publishers weren’t too keen on giving away free copies of his books, so he’s taken matters into his own hands.

As I'm sure would be Coelho's wish, we'll share the link here.

What Coelho quickly discovered was that the more his book was available for free, the more sales of the actual book increased. As an example, he cites the Russian translation of his book, where it went from only 1,000 sales to well over 100,000 in a period of two years, and has only continued to grow since then.

I first heard about this on Techdirt (link below).

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eirikso

at 14:56 on January 25th, 2008

A great presentation by Paulo himself. About language, rights management and communication.

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khwaish (not verified)

at 23:35 on August 13th, 2008

where can i get free ebooks of paulo coelho

Anatol (not verified)

at 12:06 on March 9th, 2009

I'v read Paulo Coelho's “The Alchemist” the first time in my 62, but it was exciting mor me!

All my life looks for me now in new light.

Indira Patel (not verified)

at 07:20 on August 19th, 2009

I've read all of Paulo Coelho's books and all of them gives us a very truthful insight of the human behavior and how we can do much better fo all mankind.