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Dave edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of The Black Swan Monday, August 24 2009.

• Added: The bell curve is a lie, outliers are more influential than norms.

Dave edited the summary of Chetan Bhagat Wednesday, December 3 2008.

• Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is a best-selling Indian author. He is the author of three bestsellers: Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT , One Night @ the Call Center, and The Three Mistakes of My Life. He is also the scriptwriter for 'Hello', the Bollywood movie based on One Night @ the Call Center.
  
  After eleven years in Hong Kong, the author relocated to Mumbai in 2008, where he works in an investment bank. Apart from books, the author has a keen interest in screenplays and spirituality. Chetan is married to Anusha, his classmate from IIM Ahmedabad and has twin boys Ishaan and Shyam.
  
  His first book, Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT (May 2004) is a novel about three boys who join IIT Delhi and try to cope with the notoriously heavy workload of the institute. This book has continued to stay on the India Today bestseller list ever since its publication (190 weeks in January 2008). It won him the Society Young Achiever's award in 2004 and the Publisher's Recognition award in 2005. Rajkumar Hirani in his new film is the taking script of Five Point Someone with Aamir Khan in the lead role.
  
  His second book, One Night @ the Call Center, was released in India in October 2005 and continues to be a bestseller as of January 2008. The book is about six people who work at a Call Center and one night which changes it all for them. The book is being made into a big budget Bollywood film called 'Hello' starring Salman Khan, Katrnia Kaif, Sharman Joshi, Gul Panag among others.
  
  Chetan Bhagat's third book, The Three Mistakes of My Life was released in May 2008.  About the Book - "In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind Patel dreamt of having a business. To accommodate his friends Ish and Omi's passion, they open a cricket shop. Govind's wants to make money and thinks big. Ish is all about nurturing Ali, the batsman with a rare gift. Omi knows his limited capabiltiies and just wants to be with his friends. However, nothing comes easy in a turbulent city. To realize their goals, they will have to face it all - religious politics, earthquakes, riots, unacceptable love and above all, their own mistakes."

Dave changed 's author image Monday, June 23 2008.

Dave edited the summary of Paulo Coelho Tuesday, April 22 2008.

• The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.
   

  In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.

  In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.
   

  Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)

  During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.
   

  Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress (http://paulocoelhoblog.com), Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/paulocoelho) & Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulo-Coelho/11777366210). He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=paulabraconnot) and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulo_coelho/sets) , offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.
   

  From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch http://paulocoelhoblog.com/experimental-witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!
   

  Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com of his work.

  Paulo Coelho's Experimental Witch Film Competition Trailer

Dave edited the summary of Paulo Coelho Tuesday, April 22 2008.

• The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.
   

  In 1986, PAULO COELHO did the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella, an experience later to be documented in his book The Pilgrimage.

  In the following year, COELHO published The Alchemist. Slow initial sales convinced his first publisher to drop the novel, but it went on to become one of the best selling Brazilian books of all time.
   

  Other titles include Brida (1990), The Valkyries (1992), By the river Piedra I sat Down and Wept (1994), the collection of his best columns published in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo entitle Maktub (1994), the compilation of texts Phrases (1995), The Fifth Mountain (1996), Manual of a Warrior of Light (1997), Veronika decides to die (1998), The Devil and Miss Prym (2000), the compilation of traditional tales in Stories for parents, children and grandchildren (2001), Eleven Minutes (2003), The Zahir (2005)
   

  During the months of March, April, May and June 2006, Paulo Coelho traveled to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostella in 1986. He also held surprise book signings - announced one day in advance - in some cities along the way, to have a chance to meet his readers. In ninety days of pilgrimage the author traveled around the globe and took the famous Transiberrian train that took him to Vladivostok. During this experience Paulo Coelho launched his blog Walking the Path - The Pilgrimage in order to share with his readers his impressions.
   

  Since this first blog Paulo Coelho has expanded his presence in the internet with his daily blogs in Wordpress (http://paulocoelhoblog.com), Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/paulocoelho) & Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paulo-Coelho/11777366210). He is equally present in media sharing sites such as Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=paulabraconnot) and Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulo_coelho/sets) , offering on a regular basis not only texts but also videos and pictures to his readers.
   

  From this intensive interest and use of the Internet sprang his bold new project: The Experimental Witch http://paulocoelhoblog.com/experimental-witch where he invites his readers to adapt to the screen his book The Witch of Portobello. You can still subscribe in this experiment!
   

  Indeed Paulo Coelho is a firm believer of Internet as a new media and is the first Best-selling author to actively support online free distribution http://piratecoelho.wordpress.com of his work.
   

  Paulo Coelho's Experimental Witch Film Competition Trailer

Dave edited the summary of Chris Anderson Tuesday, April 22 2008.

• Chris Anderson is editor in chief of Wired Magazine, and is most widely quoted for his work "The Long Tail", in which he describes the opportunity found when businesses serve customers needs outside of the most popular requests.  This anti-mass-merchandizing missive began as an article in wired magazine, and the book shortly followed. 
  

Dave edited the summary of Chris Anderson Tuesday, April 22 2008.

• Chris Anderson is editor in chief of Wired Magazine, and is most widely quoted for his work "The Long Tail", in which he describes the opportunity found when businesses serve customers needs outside of the most popular requests.  This anti-mass-merchandizing missive began as an article in wired magazine, and the book shortly followed. 
  
  
  

Dave edited the summary of Chris Anderson Tuesday, April 22 2008.

• Chris Anderson is editor in chief of Wired Magazine, and is most widely quoted for his work "The Long Tail", in which he describes the opportunity found when businesses serve customers needs outside of the most popular requests.  This anti-mass-merchandizing missive began as an article in wired magazine, and the book shortly followed. 
  
  

Dave changed 's author image Monday, April 21 2008.