Richard Dawkins is responding to what he called the "stirring towards atheism" in some Islamic countries with a programme to make free downloads of his books available in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian.
The scientist and atheist said he was "greatly encouraged" to learn that the unofficial Arabic pdf of the book had been downloaded 13m times. Dawkins writes in The God Delusion about his wish that the "open-minded people" who read it will "break free of the vice of religion altogether". It has sold 3.3m copies worldwide since it was published in 2006 – far fewer than the number of Arabic copies that Dawkins believes to have been downloaded illegally.
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday March 25 2018, @01:57PM
A while back I found that the Iranian people's most-popular search query was:
ebook pdf
How about now?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=ebook%20pdf [google.com]
Myanmar leads the pack for "ebook pdf". Could it be the Rohingya trying to find The Noble Q'uran?
Let's just look in Iran:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=IR&q=ebook%20pdf [google.com]
I find that "ebook pdf" is quite a lot less-frequently searched for by Iranians. Perhaps that's because they don't need to search for them anymore.
If you are the author of a book, article, essays, rant or manifesto, you could help a lot of people out were you to offer free downloads of ebook and pdf versions of your writing.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]