Morning Reading, selected articles of interest from various publications.

Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling
Scribd’s biggest advantage is a system that will allow any document bought from its store to be read on different gadgets – a personal computer, an electronic book reader like Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle or a sophisticated mobile phone.
“That’s the Holy Grail right there, so I think this could turn into a really big deal,” Weiner said. “Its ultimate success will be determined by the number of publishers and authors it can get on board.”
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Scribd Will Let Writers Sell Their Own Books For Whatever
Whereas Amazon will keep most of the profits when they offer the SAME EXACT DEAL (except infinitely worse, because the only people who can buy Amazon products are those who bought Kindles or who have iPhones), Scribd is offering an 80 / 20 split in favor of writers, and are also letting publishers choose whether or not to encrypt their ebooks.
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