Why Paulo Coelho Gives His Novels Away Online

“I saw the first pirated edition of one of my books, so I said I’m going to post it online. … I put this first copy online and I sold, in the first year, 10,000 copies there. And in the second year it jumped to 100,000 copies. … Then I started putting other books online, knowing that if people read a little bit and they like it, they are going to buy the book.”