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Simon & Schuster to Sell Ebooks on Scribd.com

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 11, 2009 6:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – Simon & Schuster is going to put about 4,500 book titles for sale on a relatively new website that caters to e-readers, reports BusinessWeek. The publisher, which handles authors such as Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Dan Brown, said the ebooks will... Read full story »

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