Tell that to his publisher, HarperCollins. "I always thought that when, at the beginning of your career, you strive to be read, you can't change your mind later and become greedy about it," he said. At the recent Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich, Coelho told a gathering of tech company CEOs, artists and designers that since 2005 he's been directing his readers to an online site where they can download his books, in languages from German to Japanese, for free.
He spends at least three hours a day online, writing e-mails back and forth with his readers and posting photos on Flickr, MySpace and a blog.Ĭoelho's online activities also include a somewhat nefarious one: he likes to promote pirated copies of his own books. The Brazilian author has sold more than 100 million books, which include 14 short story collections and the novel "The Alchemist." He has been a fan of the Internet since the early 1990s. Paulo Coelho is not the literary world's most active Web aficionado, but he's certainly its most prominent.
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