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Old 04-29-2011, 06:12 PM   #1
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Art is not an orange
First I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, so Mods feel free to move as you like.

World-known Author Paulo Coelho has posted interesting thoughts on sharing works of art, piracy and the greedy industry on his blog.

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But the industry is thinking on the opposite direction of our reality today. I follow Hilal on Twitter (even if she tweets once a year…). Hilal is from Turkey, but lives in Russia (and she is the main character in ALEPH). She first read a pirate edition of “The Alchemist”. Hilal download the text, read it, decided to buy the book. Up to today, I have over 12.000.000 hard copies sold in Russia, and counting.
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I also decided to create “The Pirate Coelho”, an non-official fan page that allows people to download the full texts in different languages. I am selling more books now than ever.
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Old 04-29-2011, 06:52 PM   #2
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Never heard of him, but free ebook as promotion for real book won't really work now that people have devices to read ebooks on. Free ebook as promotion for another ebook might work, but that won't be much use to anyone who only has one ebook.
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Old 04-29-2011, 07:12 PM   #3
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I read half of the alchemist on paper, I suppose I'll read the other half on my Kindle.

Also that blog post makes no kind of sense, He created a non-official fan page about himself?
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He created a non-official fan page about himself?
I really needed a good laugh today and this did it, thanks!
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