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Scribd Signs Deal With Simon & Schuster to Showcase and Sell Thousands of eBooks and Printed Titles

Friday 12. June 2009 - Readers Can Browse Simon & Schuster 'Storefront' in Recently Launched Scribd Store

Scribd, the world’s largest social publishing company, and Simon & Schuster, a leading global publisher, today announced an agreement to sell Simon & Schuster eBooks in the Scribd Store, an e-commerce destination and publishing marketplace launched last month to complement Scribd’s already-popular platform for users’ sharing their written works. At launch, nearly 5,000 Simon & Schuster eBook titles will be available on Scribd for purchase and download, making them readable on Scribd.com, computer desktops and various mobile devices. The Simon & Schuster storefront on Scribd (www.scribd.com/Simon&Schuster) will include bestselling books from authors such as Stephen King, Dan Brown, Mary Higgins Clark, Chelsea Handler and Steve Martin. In addition, Simon & Schuster will also make thousands of printed titles available for preview with links to purchase from the Simon & Schuster website and other retailers.
“Simon & Schuster is a major force in book publishing and is again leading the industry by recognizing the power of the social web to influence reading and buying behavior,” said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. “We’re thrilled to offer our users a one-stop solution for discovering, sharing and buying written works of all kinds, including bestselling books by one of the world’s top publishers.”
“With millions of visitors and an extraordinary number of posted documents, Scribd has become an important destination for readers seeking written information that is relevant to their lives,” said Ellie Hirschhorn, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of Simon & Schuster. “We’re pleased to offer them this convenient, user-friendly option for discovering, sampling, and purchasing Simon & Schuster books, any time and anywhere.”
All works in the Scribd Store are added to Scribd’s Copyright Management System, an industry-leading technology that helps prevent the upload of unauthorized written works. Publishers like Simon & Schuster have the ability to determine how works are read, including settings for “read only on Scribd.com,” “download” and “download with DRM.” In addition, Scribd provides publishers with the flexibility to experiment with pricing, which can be changed easily and at any time.
Availability
Starting today, readers will have access to the Simon & Schuster “storefront” in Scribd Store, a special section of the website where they will be able to browse and purchase books by Simon & Schuster. The content also will be discoverable by browsing Scribd’s categories such as “books” and “business”; through keyword searches on Scribd and popular search engines; and recommendations made by friends using Scribd’s many social features, including Twitter and Facebook integration.
Other Simon & Schuster books now available on Scribd include:
— Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)
— He’s Just Not That Into You (Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo)
— We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land (Jimmy Carter)
— The Bro Code (Barney Stinson, “How I Met Your Mother”)
— Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea (Chelsea Handler)
— Born Standing Up (Steve Martin)
— Chasing Harry Winston (Lauren Weisberger)
— The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
— My Sister’s Keeper (Jodi Picoult)
— Mommywood, sTORI Telling (Tori Spelling)
— Pulitzer Prize winners: Angela’s Ashes, The Old Man and the Sea, Gone With the Wind