Ebooks For Dummies: Wiley Joins 150 Publishers In The Scribd Store

Book publishers are increasingly embracing digital books, and not just on Amazon's Kindle. Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the University of Chicago Press announced they will join a total of 150 publishers to offer ebooks in the Scribd Store . Wiley is the venerable publisher of the For Dummies series of books as well as Frommer's travel guides and CliffsNotes. Scribd lets people embed and share documents in a Flash viewer, but has been partnering with publishers since March to also sell downloadable digital versions of their books. Other publishers already on board include Simon & Schuster and O'Reilly Media. The ebooks are downloadable as a PDF, and excerpts can be shared through the Scribd reader.