Major Brazilian Writer Supports Free Online Books Distribution
Worldwide famous Brazilian Writer Paulo Coelho, one of the most proeminent writers in the world, keeps a blog supporting free online book distribution. He claims that books should be sold in different ways, and that there’s no problem in allowing digital book copying, since computers, today, are not an apropriate paltform for book reading.
In his blog piratecoelho.wordpress.com he offer links to P2P networks, and free file hosting services, with all his bibliography in many languages. The files have no copyright notices which means that can be freely copied. Even recent books, like The Witch of Portobello, are avaiable with no copyright notices.
Paulo Coelho is member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, and became worldwide famous after writing The Alchemist, translated into 66 languages, and sold 41 million copies, it is a movie-in-progress produced by Laurence Fishburne. All his bibliography has already sold 100 million copies in 150 differente countries, whick makes him the all-time best-selling writer in Portuguese. His books are best-sellers at Brazil, UK, United States, France, Germany, Iran, Canada, Italy, Israel, Finland, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Cuba, Poland and Lithuania.
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