Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
On TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on March 17, 2009
Online document sharing site Scribd
has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add an array of content to Scribd’s library, including full-length novels as well as briefer teaser excerpts. ..more
No. 1 — 2009-03-18 at 12.07 pm
And the beat goes on.. Interesting progress on Scribd as published on TechCrunch today. Now attitudes will change from ‘we will never give away our content’ to ‘perhaps we should re-evaluate (meaning: wait a minute, if they’re there, we should be too)’.
And so these movements will enforce eachother – more content available, more e-devices will be sold (and used). And the more e-devices will be used, the more content will become available.
This seems a small step (..), but once excerpts are being read on an e-device as a teaser for the full content, the next step is easy and close. It won’t replace a book, but can easily be used alongside.
Fifty million visitors on Scribd every month – a sheer irresistable amount, both for publishers and authors.