The best-selling author Paulo Coelho has managed to turn tables on his publishing house Harper Collins. Indeed, the New York Times released an article (nytimes.com/2008/02/11/business/media/11harper.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin) saying how Harper Collins is enabling the online reading of Coelho's book The Witch of Portobello in its website. The publishing house also announced it would be putting a Coelho book per month on it's website. It seems that Harper Collins had no choice, since Coelho confessed in his speech during the DLD conference earlier this year, that many books (including Harper English versions) where in Pirate Coelho – a blog he created for free download : piratecoelho.wordpress.com Thumbs up for Pirate Coelho!
I like Coelho. I read his book The Alchemist. One of very few books my M.A.-in-English-Literature wife has recommended to me that I was actually able not only to read but to enjoy. When the Alchemist offers the traveler wine with dinner, he is suspicious because he knows it's prohibited by Islam. The Alchemist replies:
