Simon & Schuster to sell books through Scribd

Simon & Schuster to sell books through Scribd

Scribd has signed on a deal with Simon & Schuster for their online store.

Simon & Schuster would now offer their owned content through this store.

They have books by famous authors like Stephen King and Chelsea Handler in their stable.

The two companies said that excerpts from thousands of books would also be made available on Scribd. These would link to related sections on Simon & Schuster’s Web site.

Ellie Hirschhorn, Simon & Schuster’s chief digital officer spoke about this deal with Scribd: “It’s a way for them, in terms of technology, to match our files against any have been uploaded, to identify those uploaded files and then tell whether they’re legitimate. If you’re not in their program, the entire onus falls to the publisher, or to the author, or to the agent, for finding a pirated book. And now it’s a shared responsibility.”

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