Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com


	Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com

mrobert

6-14-2009 6:48 PM

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mrobert says:

Should make for some interesting competition in the book market. Finally more people are jumping on the bandwagon and taking the idea of digital books seriously.

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