My Guardian column this week is an interview with the Googliest author I know, Paulo Coelho about the power of free and friendships online. The lede:
Paulo Coelho certainly has nothing against selling books. He has sold an astounding 100m copies of his novels. But he also believes in giving them away. He is a pirate. . . .
[...] “Novelist Paulo Coelho finds the perfect alchemy of print & digital” in the Media Guardian Jeff Jarvis’ interview with the author following his recent trip to Europe, also in his blog buzzmachine [...]
Hello!
I’m a big fan of Paulo Coelho! You will love this! He’s the first best-selling
author to be distributing for free his works on his blog:
http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
Have a nice day!
Aart
Interesting stuff, but I wonder if he spends as much time writing as he does on self publicity…