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Tuesday Midday Links: Scribd Launches New Reading App with Dear Author Featured

Tuesday Midday Links: Scribd Launches New Reading App with Dear Author Featured

One of the things I did at RWA was meet with industry people. Okay that’s all I did but I actually got something accomplished besides doing interviews. I met with Anne Watters Westpheling from Scribd and she shared with me their new App. It’s called Float and it’s designed to bring together your social media(…)

Simon & Schuster to Put Content on Scribd

The subtext of every one of these types of posts is “If you can’t beat them, join them”. Scribd has become a haven for pirated content but given that it commands 50 million viewers per month, it has a market that is hard to ignore. Simon & Schuster is the most recent publisher to avail(…)

Scribd, an Online Databank of Written Works, Opens Store

Scribd is an online site offering written works. Think of it as the Youtube of writing. You can find the full text of Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame or Lynne Graham’s Harlequin Presents titles. With over million documents, there is something for everyone. The problem with Scribd is that some people use the service(…)

New eBook Readers on the Horizon and Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights Affair

For a cool grand, you can buy the first color ebook reader. It has an 8″ color screen, bluetooth, wi fi, a touchscreen, USB port. It’s based off Windows CE so you could run any number of software reading programs like MS Lit, eReader or Mobipocket off of it. The battery life is supposedly 40(…)