Daphne Maia

I've never been a fan of Coelho's, but this caught my eye tonight after Jerrick shared on Plurk the link to Coelho's website, which contained digital copies of never-before published e-books. To download these books, go to: Paulo Coelho's Free Internet Books.

EDIT: If you can't download the books from the website, do grab them HERE!

I was curious as to how this started, so I checked his profile on Wikipedia, and found this paragraph:

Paulo Coelho is a strong advocate of spreading his books through peer-to-peer file sharing networks. A fan posted a Russian translation of one of his novels online. Sales of his book jumped from 3,000 to one million in three years, with no additional promotion or publicity from his publishers. Coelho took to pirating his own books on Pirate Coelho which provides free translations of many of his books. He was caught by the head of HarperCollins, Jane Friedman, who noticed that one of the unauthorized versions Coelho linked to had notes from his own manuscript. The two reached a compromise: each month a new novel can be read for free on the publisher's website.