Scribd to sell 5,000 e-books from Simon & Schuster

Scribd to sell 5,000 e-books from Simon & Schuster

Scribd, the site that lets users upload, share and embed documents, first launched its e-books store back in May as a potential competitor to Amazon. Now it has inched closer to its goal with a deal to sell 5,000 titles from major publishing house Simon & Schuster in the form of digital e-books.

Many publishing houses are shopping around for new online distribution opportunities. E-books may have only generated $100 million in revenue last year, but… Continue Reading