{"id":2246,"date":"2009-06-13T08:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2009-06-13T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T13:38:22","slug":"simon-and-shuster-gets-into-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2246","title":{"rendered":"Simon and Shuster gets into the act&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Stephen King's Official Web Site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\" target=\"_self\">Stephen King<\/a> publisher <strong>Simon &amp; Shuster<\/strong> has taken the leap and opened a virtual storefront at <a title=\"Home of the Independent author...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\" target=\"_self\">Scribd.com<\/a>. Read the story <a title=\"Simon and Shuster and Scribd.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gfhddci4qkqgF8LgLVrBbHg44BnA\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>. Called <em>the Youtube for eBooks<\/em>, the document sharing site, <strong>Scribd.com<\/strong>, allows publishers and independent authors to offer samples of their eBooks and make direct sales to readers.<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Shuster is making 5,000 titles available at the popular eBook sharing and sales destination. (60 million visitors a month&#8230;wow!)<\/p>\n<p>A little investigation shows Stephen King&#8217;s <em><a title=\"See for yourself...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/15006327\/Cell-A-Novel\" target=\"_self\">The Cell<\/a> <\/em>sample and purchase offer at Scribd.com. It&#8217;s listed at <strong>$7.99<\/strong> to download the entire book, a $2.00 discount from the list price of $9.99. A quick look shows that Amazon offers it at<strong> $7.99<\/strong> for Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>The prices are coming down, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=eboorumo-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1416524517&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King publisher Simon &amp; Shuster has taken the leap and opened a virtual storefront at Scribd.com. Read the story here. Called the Youtube for eBooks, the document sharing site, Scribd.com, allows publishers and independent authors to offer samples of their eBooks and make direct sales to readers. Simon &amp; Shuster is making 5,000 titles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2246\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}