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Re:Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto... by kingkilr on Monday September 20, 2010 @01:25PM (#1709665)
I don't care if they want to establish a paywall, that's there perogative, what I don't like is taking my content, which I uploaded under the belief I'd be able to host it there at no cost to end users (persumably subsidised by ads) and then charging my readers for it. I post my content (mostly slides from talks and such) for readers, I'd probably even pay to put my content there, it's rather convenient.
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Re:Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto... by dataguy on Monday September 20, 2010 @01:34PM (#1709705)
The last part: Absolutely. They got it the wrong way. I mean - okay - they have the right to establish the paywall.

But they are scare off the wrong people: the readers. Why use a service to pay for reading something that the publishers WANT to give me for free? Not enough: Many publishers would pay for it, as it is convenient and absolutely user friendly.

This won't work. Well no, actually it will work - but not as a service that proclaims "show your work to the world for free".

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