Reacties op: Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd http://www.asecondopinion.nl/archives/274 a spectator sees more than a player Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Door: Thees Peereboom http://www.asecondopinion.nl/archives/274/comment-page-1#comment-7 Thees Peereboom Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:07:00 +0000 http://www.asecondopinion.nl/?p=274#comment-7 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. 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.

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