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Simon & Schuster to Offer 5,000 E-book Titles on Scribd

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 12, 2009 - 10:01am.
San Francisco - CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) publishing house Simon & Schuster has announced plans to make 5,000 titles available for purchase and download through document-sharing website Scribd. The publisher will price e-books at 20% off the list price of the most recent print edition. Scribd provides publishers with an 80% cut of revenue from titles sold through its site, which told The New York Times it is also working on a reading application for the iPhone that should launch in the coming weeks.

tags: E-Books | Publishing | Books | Simon & Schuster | Scribd |

Scribd Debuts Digital Publishing Service for Writers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 18, 2009 - 10:16am.
San Francisco - Scribd, a website that lets users share text documents, on Monday launched a new service that lets publishers charge for their documents, and keep 80% of the revenue, The New York Times reported.
tags: DRM | E-Books | Publishing | Amazon.com | Scribd |

Random House, Simon & Schuster Expand Free E-books on Scribd

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 18, 2009 - 12:34pm.
San Francisco - Scribd, the provider of a Web application that lets users embed and view text documents on websites and blogs, has partnered with major publishers including Random House and Simon & Schuster to release an expanded number of bestsellers as free e-books, Wired.com reported. The free e-books may be viewed online via Scribd, which claims 50 million unique readers, or downloaded as a PDF

tags: Marketing | E-Books | Publishing | Books | Simon & Schuster | Scribd | Random House |

Document-Sharing Site Scribd Gets $3.5 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on June 5, 2007 - 2:55pm.

San Francisco - Scribd, a site that allows users to upload and share documents of all kinds, has received a $3.5 million investment from Redpoint Ventures, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

tags: Deals | VC | Redpoint Ventures | User-Generated | Scribd |