aarthilal

The best-selling author Paulo Coelho has managed to turn tables on his publishing house Harper Collins. Indeed, the New York Times released an article (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/business/media/11harper.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin)
saying how Harper Collins is enabling the online reading of Coelho's book The Witch of Portobello in its website. The publishing house also announced it would be putting a Coelho book per month on it's website.
It seems that Harper Collins had no choice, since Coelho confessed in his speech during the DLD conference earlier this year, that many books (including Harper English versions) where in Pirate Coelho – a blog he created for free download : http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com/
Thumbs up for Pirate Coelho!

Damian_Rucci

Wow. Wait why would he put his books up for free if he was publishing with a major publisher? Does he want the money or is it a hobby?

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Malone

He obviously feels he's making enough money from book sales, and also wants to share his work online. I'm sure most of the people who start reading it online will wind up going and buying it. Books aren't like music, it's good to have a physical binding of pages to hold in your hand when you really love a book.

I think this is great.

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lilacstarflower

I started reading this earlier today. Although I like the idea of downloading books - i hate staring at my computer screen for hours at a time so will probably end up buying the book. It says a lot about him putting it up for free