Pirate Yourself, Become a Best-Seller

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 25, 2008 @01:54AM from the old-time-religion dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "It sounds like a dotcom-era business plan: 1) give it away, 2) ???, 3) make pots of money. Author Paulo 'Pirate' Coelho leapt out of obscurity and onto the best-seller list by giving away his books on the Net. The best-selling author of 'The Alchemist' will even help you pirate his books via his blog. His publishers were not pleased, but then his books went from selling 1,000 copies to 100,000 and then over a million. He gives special credit to pirate translators who are making his work accessible to a wider audience and convincing more people to read his book."

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HTTP lives on port 80 by fm2503 · 2008-01-25 02:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why oh why oh why do people persist in running web servers on non standard ports?
Why is his blog on port 8090?
Have they never heard of software virtual hosts?
1. Re:HTTP lives on port 80 by pembo13 · 2008-01-25 02:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  why not? your browser can't handle it?
  
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Re:Before claiming RIAA should learn by AndGodSed · 2008-01-25 03:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Well I bet this /. story will be good for sales...

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