UK-free gifts of Garcia Marquez

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Free gift of Gabriel García Márquez in United Kingdom

Colombian writer's texts will be given away along with titles from other authors as part of a publishing initiative that aims to increase interest in reading and buying it

.- A million books were given away in the UK in the course of one night, on 5 March as part of a publishing initiative to encourage reading.

Although presented as an idealistic initiative, there is also a reason behind her music, today reported the newspaper The Times.

The publishing industry is confident that the gift will encourage many to buy other books, including some already published titles of famous authors.

Starting today, members of the public may choose to be among the 20 000 selected each of which will be given fifty titles which can in turn donate to any institution, facility or a place of their choice.

Suggestions for these donations are mentioned hospitals, prisons or airports.

List titles ranging from The Spy Who Came from the cold, John le Carré, a Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, or Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez.

A list that included novels, detective stories, fairy tales and operas such as Selected Poems, the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.

Among the writers who support the initiative include Heaney himself, the author of the Harry Potter series JK Rowling, the Czech playwright Tom Stoppard and actors Colin Firth and Tilda Swinton.

The texts are printed especially for that day and all the accused persons or their representatives, have withdrawn from the collection of royalties (copyright).

Faced with the novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and her colleague Margaret Atwood, both titles in the list, who have welcomed the initiative, the project has been criticized by some independent booksellers.

Some of them argue that among the selected works are several of the biggest sellers in bookstores and give away the fact that going to harm them.

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