Scribd.com Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies
Scribd.com, a popular document-sharing website, is allowing authors to sell their works in digital format through their store.
Authors can earn 80 per cent of the posted sale price. Scribd.com will let authors sell their books in PDF format via their store link here. Authors can upload their book and sell the books either with or without DRM rights.
Authors publishing books in hard books usually get 10 to 20 percent of the book price, whereas at Scribd.com store authors get 80 percent of the sale price.
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John Hunter on May 24th, 2009 8:40 am
I find it odd when my impression is that scribed has not been very effective at preventing copyright violations on their site. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5998918.ece I admit I have not looked into this much so I could be wrong.
To be clear I think authors would be wise to provide more resources online but it is the choice of those who own the copyright not a site like scribd to decide what is to be made available. It would seem to me scribd will have to do a very good job of protecting copyright if they want authors to partner with them.
Jaclyn on May 24th, 2009 3:11 pm
I agree…what is to stop people from stealing their copyright’s? I think that after all the time and effort these writers put into the book…they should definitely check out the entire site and it’s history before thinking about putting their book on there.
John1120 on June 5th, 2009 7:13 pm
Very nice site!
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