Scribd Store Lets You Sell Ebooks, Digital Reports, etc
By Anna Johnson on May 23rd, 2009On Monday, online document sharing site, Scribd, launched Scribd Store. Scribd is hailing it as ‘the world’s first online document store’ where anyone from professional publishers and authors to students, scientists, and artists can sell written works.
For information marketers and publishers, Scribd provides another avenue for you to sell your ebooks, digital reports, presentations and other documents.
Among other things, Scribd will make your work available to its members (some 60 million), allow you to make real-time changes to pricing, process payments for you, give you sales analytics, and incorporate copyright protection into your ebooks, reports or other documents.
In return for all this, Scribd will take a 20 percent commission.
That’s low by ‘affiliate’ standards, but high by payment processing / online store standards. So depending on how much, and how valuable, is the exposure you’ll get by having your content in the Scribd Store, 20 percent may be excessive or just right.
