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By: Speakeasy » Blog Archive » The Perils of Being an Author in a Digital Age

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:11:19 +0000

[...] giants – Google and Amazon. If e-royalties are getting you down though, you could do what Paulo Coehlo does and give readers free copies of his books to download. For him, it leads to an increase [...]

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cwest.gavrilo.net » Informasjon, Kommunikasjon og Mennesker — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:17:48 +0000

[...] Stadig flere musikere og forfattere våkner opp og tar saken i egne hender, slik som for eksempel Paulo Coelho som piratkopierer sine egne bøker på the Piratebay. Allerede ligger det stadig flere bøker ute i fildelingsnettverk (de svenske [...]

By: The Pirate Bay Clashes with Book Publishers - Zwartbaard

The Pirate Bay Clashes with Book Publishers - Zwartbaard — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:10:12 +0000

[...] examples is best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who said he sold thousands of extra copies because he pirated his own books. Coelho’s success later inspired the publisher and Leander Kahney – the author of the two books – [...]

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The Pirate Bay Clashes with Book Publishers | Torrent Searcher News — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:06:42 +0000

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[...] away for free. Coelho believes that if people are allowed to swap digital copies of his books, it actually increases sales. After he uploaded the Russian translation of his 1988 novel The Alchemist, sales in Russia went [...]

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The Pirate Bay Clashes with Book Publishers | TorrentFreak — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:19:54 +0000

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Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:09:31 +0000

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By: Filesharing und BÃ¼cher (Beletristik) « G33KY^2 - The Nerd Strikes Back

Filesharing und BÃ¼cher (Beletristik) « G33KY^2 - The Nerd Strikes Back — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:30:55 +0000

[...] weil er im Internet gelobt wurde oder Blogs Amazon-Links zu seinem Buch verbreiten. Viele Autoren haben das ja auch offensichtlich [...]

By: Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book | TorrentFreak

Furious Author Cancels Pirated Book | TorrentFreak — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:58:19 +0000

[...] is best-selling author Paulo Coelho, who said he sold thousands of extra books because of he pirated his own books. “Sharing is part of the human condition. A person who does not share is not only selfish, but [...]

By: Reich durch Piraterie - The Inquirer DE

Reich durch Piraterie - The Inquirer DE — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:54:36 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak Pirate Coelho // [...]

By: Como livros na internet aumentam as vendas de livros na livraria « EM-BAR-CA-DO

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:14:38 +0000

[...] encontrar seus livros para download gratuito e sem pagamento de direitos autorais. A confissÃ£oÂ foi feita no encontro Digital, Life, Design, que acontece na Alemanha nesta semana. Coelho explicou que as [...]

By: Pirate Coelho at Paulo Coelho’s Blog

Pirate Coelho at Paulo Coelho’s Blog — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:14:10 +0000

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By: MUDIT

MUDIT — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:02:03 +0000

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By: Zwartbaard » Blog Archive » Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:27:29 +0000

[...] urge to share received quite a lot of attention after Coelho started a weblog with the name Pirate Coelho a few months ago. His motivation? He [...]

By: Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit | CyberLaw

Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit | CyberLaw — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:02:00 +0000

[...] urge to share received quite a lot of attention after Coelho started a weblog with the name Pirate Coelho a few months ago. His motivation? He [...]

By: Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit | Clint Is A Geek.com

Best-Selling Author Turns Piracy into Profit | Clint Is A Geek.com — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:20:13 +0000

[...] urge to share received quite a lot of attention after Coelho started a weblog with the name Pirate Coelho a few months ago. His motivation? He [...]

By: SLS

SLS — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:30:01 +0000

The Alchemist is a wonderful book. While everyone else is crying about the pirating and saying it is cutting into their profits Paulo is making it work for him. Great to see a forward thinker.Pirating is making artist step up the quality of their work. Let’s put it this way, if you look online and it is difficult to find your work i.e. (movie, book, song…) being pirated, then your work sucks and you shouldn’t get paid anyway.

By: ehcrea.blog » P2P DestekÃ§isi Yazar

ehcrea.blog » P2P DestekÃ§isi Yazar — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:41:52 +0000

[...] eriÅŸmek iÃ§in buraya bakabilirsiniz. AyrÄ±ca konu ile ilgli detaylÄ± habere de bakmak isterseniz torrentfreak‘e gÃ¶z atabilirsiniz. (HenÃ¼z Oy Yok) YÃ¼kleniyor [...]

By: Book Authors See BitTorrent As a Promotional Tool | TorrentFreak

Book Authors See BitTorrent As a Promotional Tool | TorrentFreak — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:26:32 +0000

[...] selling author Paulo Coelho posted several of his books on BitTorrent, which boosted his sales significantly. The success of Coelho [...]

By: Aryo the Prince of Persia

Aryo the Prince of Persia — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:56:12 +0000

[quote comment="271216"]Does everyone in here praising this guy is serious? He is a hack. The majority of people here in brazil with a little academic education hates this guy. He is a joke in a lot of circles. His writing is an pseudo-mystical ego trip… Please dudes… Maybe the translators are doing a better job than he is… But his success overseas seriously amazes me…[/quote]

ok! u have academic education… good for you !
so what?! whats your point???
we love him, and we love his works. if your “educated people” got something better, then they should publish it, and then :
let the readers decide! … (but i’m sure they already have decided !)

By: bob

bob — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:41:47 +0000

BwNgDR hi good site thx http://peace.com

By: The Newest iPod » Blog Archive » Cult of Mac/iPod books go legit and DRM-free on P2P

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:55:13 +0000

[...] A number of other publishers have experimented with P2P in the same way. O’Reilly experimented with it for about a year between 2006 and 2007 and said that book sales weren’t hurt by putting the files online. But when The Alchemist author Paulo Coelho put a translated version of his book on Bit Torrent, sales apparently exploded. [...]

By: Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay at IDTorrent Blog

Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay at IDTorrent Blog — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:20:51 +0000

[...] success of the best selling author Paulo Coelho, who posted several of his books on BitTorrent, has inspired the publisher and Leander Kahney -the author of [...]

By: The Cult of Mac i The Cult of iPod dostÄ™pne na Pirate Bay - Apple Blog

The Cult of Mac i The Cult of iPod dostÄ™pne na Pirate Bay - Apple Blog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:34:26 +0000

[...] w oczywisty sposÃ³b odwoÅ‚uje siÄ™ do udostÄ™pnienia przez Paulo Coelho niektÃ³rych ze swoich ksiÄ…Å¼ek za darmo w sieci czego efektem byÅ‚o np. zwiÄ™kszenie sprzedaÅ¼y w Rosji z 1 tys. sztuk rocznie do [...]

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:40:31 +0000

[...] success of the best selling author Paulo Coelho, who posted several of his books on BitTorrent, has inspired the publisher and Leander Kahney -the author of [...]

By: The Young Writers Blog » Blog Archive » Giving Away Books For Free?

The Young Writers Blog » Blog Archive » Giving Away Books For Free? — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:05:19 +0000

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By: Free Books by Wired.com’s Leander Kahney | MeltedCube

Free Books by Wired.com’s Leander Kahney | MeltedCube — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:12:00 +0000

[...] We came up with the idea after reading about the amazing success to bestselling author Paulo Coelho, who seeds his own books to file-sharing networks and then promotes them on his blog. Coelho claims great success with "pirating" his own books, saying it has had a slow but dramatic effect on sales. [...]

By: Cult of Mac » Blog Archive » Free Copies of Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod on FileSharing Networks

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:05:10 +0000

[...] We came up with the idea after reading about the amazing success to bestselling author Paulo Coelho, who seeds his own books to file-sharing networks and then promotes them on his blog. Coelho claims great success with “pirating” his own books, saying it has had a slow but dramatic effect on sales. [...]

By: rebaz ghazi

rebaz ghazi — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:07:11 +0000

i expect unexpected things in his works.

By: rebazghazi@yahoo.com

rebazghazi@yahoo.com — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:52:14 +0000

i am looking forward to buying his next books, he reveals what i consider secret.

By: Pirate Us? | The No Starch Press Blog

Pirate Us? | The No Starch Press Blog — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:29:18 +0000

[...] Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, brought something very interesting to our attention today. Check out this post on torrenfreak.com about Paulo Coelho. Every book publisher should watch this excellent and [...]

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» It’s Round-Up Day! — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:00:03 +0000

[...] Alchemist Authour Pirates His Own Books – TorrentFreak reports on how Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of “The Alchemist”, is [...]

By: planetalibro.com.ar

planetalibro.com.ar — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:01:12 +0000

Autor promociona la “piraterÃa” de sus propios libros…

Vota este post en planetalibro.com.ar/noticias…

By: Sorting Out the Future of Publishing at TOC | Medialoper

Sorting Out the Future of Publishing at TOC | Medialoper — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:11:26 +0000

[...] one of the first books being offered through this new program. Coelho made headlines recently for pirating his own books — a move the author says significantly boosted the sales of his printed [...]

By: The Long Tail and Sharing at NP-Contemplation

The Long Tail and Sharing at NP-Contemplation — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:20:14 +0000

[...] to products in the long tail are fairly well-known. A little while back, TorrentFreak had an article about Paulo Coelho, who’s managed to boost sales of foreign translations of his book [...]

By: janep.org | the singapore and sydney blog » Blog Archive » Coelho pirates his own books

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:50:46 +0000

[...] More about Paolo pirating himself can be read here and here. [...]

By: The Rise of Free Online Books « Postcard Headlines

The Rise of Free Online Books « Postcard Headlines — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:56:50 +0000

[...] 13, 2008 Paulo Coelho gives us an innovative example on how to get rich as an author. He’s been “happily ‘pirating’ his own work for years, spreading electronic versions of his novels over the BitTorrent filesharing network for potential [...]

By: Times Emit: Free (conomics)

Times Emit: Free (conomics) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:15:44 +0000

[...] we reported last week, [albeit only to RSS readers] Coelho has quietly pirated his own books over the past few years, seeding them on BitTorrent (and other) networks, and this is (in part) [...]

By: litfarm.com » how to get rich as an author: pirate yourself

litfarm.com » how to get rich as an author: pirate yourself — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:39:04 +0000

[...] So says Paulo Coehlo, who when his publisher was none too keen about distributing digital versions of his work, set up a blog, Pirate Coelho, to help fans find P2P downloads. What was the effect? Sales. In a speech at the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich he talked about how uploading the Russian translation of “The Alchemist” made his sales in Russia go from around 1,000 per year to 100,000, then a million and more. Here’s a link to a blog post with video of the speech on torrentfreak.com. [...]

By: WhoCares

WhoCares — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:10:47 +0000

Brazillian Reader, let Paulo be a hack… at least he’s something, what are you?

And frankly if the alchemist is the kind of stuff you call a hack or a joke, then you simply don’t get the message behind it and it’s a better thing for all of us who did…

By: MÃºsicas e livros grÃ¡tis, o futuro?

MÃºsicas e livros grÃ¡tis, o futuro? — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:34:18 +0000

[...] RÃºssia disponibilizou-os gratuitamente na net e viu esse nÃºmero aumentar para 100.000 em 3 anos, como ele mesmo disse no Digital, Life, Design. O fato interessante do Pirate Coelho Ã© que o autor conversou com as [...]

By: brazillian reader

brazillian reader — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:51:46 +0000

@ Paulo Coelho: “As for the Brazlian reader comments, I encourage him to at least read my books. This is again the classical prejudice of an elite that talks about “academic” when we are here talking about Web 2.0″

Web 2.0?? I’m not judging the form, Paulo, but the content, as all book criticism must surely be directed. Does the covers of your books matter as well as the text? You can market horseshit in the prettiest and shinniest package. In the end of the day, dear “”alquimista”", is it not still horseshit? I have read a couple of your sorry excuses for literature… and I must say I feel sorry for your so called “fans”. You sir, are an untalented hack, and always will be. You dispise the “elite” for having the clarity and tools to judge your pathetic little work. Success and quality are absolutely not directly proportional.

Cheers.

By: Paulo Coelho uses piracy to help sales — karmafan.com | blog

Paulo Coelho uses piracy to help sales — karmafan.com | blog — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:17:50 +0000

[...] TorrentFreak mentions an incredibly relevant speech by Paulo Coelho (author of best-selling The Alchemist). [...]

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Alchemist Author Pirates His Own Books | — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:05:35 +0000

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By: Author Pirates Own Book, Boosts Sales « Orion Spur

Author Pirates Own Book, Boosts Sales « Orion Spur — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:04:24 +0000

[...] Yet, apparently, it also works for well-known authors. TorrentFreak points us to the news that Paulo Coelho is such a fan of giving his book away for free that he’s even set up his own blog called Pirate Coehlo where he points to where you can [...]

By: film online

film online — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:40:10 +0000

film online…

What a lovely metaphor. Thank you. Now back to work!…

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Times Emit: Apt’s links for January 30th — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:31:26 +0000

[...] Alchemist Author Pirates His Own Books | TorrentFreak – “He [Paolo Coelho] â€™s convinced â€” and rightly so â€” that letting people download free copies of his books helps sales.” Via BookTwo [...]

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