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Scribd would take 20 percent of the profits, and HUP 80 percent. Approximately 300 of HUP’s books are already on Scribd’s web site, according to Adler...
...think it’s exciting to get a big publisher like Harvard involved, especially because we went to school there,” said Adler, a former Biophysics concentrator...
...University Presses have also already signed on with Scribd. The company started discussing a deal with HUP about a month ago, according to Adler, after HUP started uploading books to the Web site on their...
Scribd, which attracted the attention of venture capitalists soon after it was launched in March 2007, currently has almost 50 million users, according to Adler. Books purchased through Scribd can be read on electronic devices, including the iPhone and Amazon Kindle...
Scribd is also looking to expand into the classroom—Adler said that the company is currently developing an annotation feature, which will allow users to write notes and highlight text on the virtual books using electronic devices. Hopefully, he said, this will allow material on Scribd to compete with physical textbooks...