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Scribd Becomes a DRM-Optional E-Bookstore
Miracle Jones writes "In an effort to compete with Amazon and Google, the document-hosting website Scribd will now be letting writers and publishers sell documents that they upload. They will be offering an 80/20 profit-sharing deal in favor of writers. Writers will be able to charge whatever they want. In addition, Scribd will not force any content control (although they will have a piracy database and bounce copyrighted scans) and will let writers choose to encrypt their books with DRM or not. This is big news for people in publishing, who have been seeking an alternative to Amazon for fear that Amazon is amassing too much power too quickly in this brand-new marketplace, especially after Amazon's announcement last week that they will now be publishing books as well as selling them."
Wow. So, I wrote that comment wondering if I would be modded as flame-bait. It's good to know I am not alone on this!
Not to say they are not doing something good, they're just cheapening their brand on the way. In doing so, they're garnering hate.