[Athen] Scribd: a YouTube-like approach to sharing, and selling, copyrighted material

[Shelley Haven]

>From the "Shades of Things to Come" department -- thought this might be of interest to some of you:


Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies

Published: May 17, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/start-ups/18download.html?ref=technology

- Shelley Haven