Can Scribd Drive Pay for Content Movement?
There’s a lot of discussion about how to get consumers to pay for content online, but maybe consumers themselves can figure it out.
Paidcontent is reporting that Scribd, a YouTube for documents, is adding an ecommerce function that lets authors and publishers set their own price and lets them keep 80% of the revenues – a strong incentive to look at what content people might buy.
While the Kindle may make money from purchased ebooks, may people may be purchasing simply because they like the device, and the best content has been, from day one, free.
On the PC Web, people are used to finding and downloading documents to free. It will be interesting to see what content sells in a format and on a site where free was the name of the game.
