Jon Stokes at Arstechnica is reporting that Harvard will be publishing 1,000 of its books through Scribd, which is sort of a YouTube for documents. Some of the books appear to be licensed with Creative Commons, while others can only be viewed for free online, and downloaded for a price. From the Arstechnica article:
My personal hope is that other cash-strapped publishing houses will bite the bullet, move their entire libraries to digital, and send their authors a complimentary, book-shaped box of tissues to cry into when they contemplate the loss of their name on a hardcover.
