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I do not try to understand why I believe in happiness; but I believe I can understand what it is to be happy. (Saint Anselmo)
A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home. (Carl Burns)
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Novelist Paulo Coelho finds the perfect alchemy of print & digital
Paulo Coelho certainly has nothing against selling books. He has sold an astounding 100m copies of his novels, writes Jeff Jarvis.
But he also believes in giving them away. He is a pirate. Coelho discovered the power of free when a fan posted a Russian translation of one of his novels online and book sales there climbed from 3,000 to 100,000 to 1m in three years. "This happened in English, in Norwegian, in Japanese and Serbian," he said. "Now when the book is released in hard copy, the sales are spectacular."
So Coelho started linking to pirated versions of his books from his own website. But when he bragged about this at the Burda Digital Lifestyle Design conference in Munich last January, he got in trouble with his US publisher, HarperCollins, whose then head, Jane Friedman, called him.
Friedman had caught Coelho red-handed - one of the supposedly unauthorised versions he linked to had the author's own notes in it. "She said, 'Paulo, come on, don't shit me'." He was pirating himself. So they reached a compromise: each month, a different Coelho novel can be read for free in the publisher's online reader, which prevents making pirated copies. Meanwhile Coelho is off to new digital frontiers. He Twitters. He blogs and enjoys exploring a different kind of writing online. "I think your language for your blog is totally different from your language in the Guardian, right? So we have to adapt ourselves. I have a lot of fun doing this."
Please read a full interview with Paulo Coelho: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgri...
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Peace and Love
Aart Hilal
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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, A Novel of Forgiveness for free
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life.
Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader. She has learned well how to bury her feelings . . . and he has turned to religion as a refuge from his raging inner conflicts.
Now they are together once again, embarking on a journey fraught with difficulties, as long-buried demons of blame and resentment resurface after more than a decade. But in a small village in the French Pyrenees, by the waters of the River Piedra, a most special relationship will be reexamined in the dazzling light of some of life's biggest questions.
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept for free:
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Aart has 27 books and 159 friends on Goodreads.
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Aart/Paulo,
What other authors do you like? I've never read your work but I'll check it out. I like Tennessee Williams, Fitzgerald, Gore Vidal, Mario Vargas Llosa, Manil Suri, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anthony Bourdain, Keith Snyder, Poppy Z. Brite and on and on and on. Oh, almost forgot, also Cody McFadyen, who has a page on here. I have his second novel, The Face of Death. I've read about half of it and it's quite good.
If you haven't already, check out GoodReads.com. It's a great place to find out about books and authors you would enjoy but have as yet missed. And also to promote the books you have written.
Nin
Happy new year, I hope you have a wonderful 2009 my friend!
Kind Regards
Dave
Hiya ta 4 da mail bud
ive added u as a m8
so can u accept plzs when u cum online?
w/b plzs
ohhr wow thanks for the add, you seem like a really cool person i`ll check on that writer fellow some time though there are some great books on My shelf just longing at me to read them. lol. Say Hi some time.
hey
ok then ur now considerd my friend lol
il check out tht author okies
lol
wb soon
sian
Hi Aart,
Thanks for the invite. I'm on Goodreads as well. Check me out there.
My Goodreads username is rathacat.
Hi thanks for the email
I'll be sure to look into his stuff, never read any of it, but am familiar with his name. You look a bit like Zooey Deschanel in your pic, except your hair color is different.
Hi there, and thanks for saying hello
I got your mail and felt special until I realised other people got your mail too. =P Oh well. lol
You seem to have found loads of people who like books. I wish I had your tracking abilities so I could hunt down groovy people like Johnny Depp etc. =P
I checked out The Alchemist, it sounds a bit heavy for me but I am trying new things recently so maybe I'll give it a go! Could be Fate, and be the best book of my life, who knows. =P
Thankies!
hiyaa
i dont really know the writer tbh
but ill check him out
btw you seem cool lolz
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Lovee Lea x
Thanks for the mail...I love his work I'll surely check it out
Thanks for the mail/advertisment. Will check this Paulo dude out on goodreads soon .