S&S joins Google with e-book alternative to Amazon Kindle

Simon & Schuster, one of the nation's largest publishers, announced it will sell e-book versions of its releases on Scribd.com, joining Google in offering an alternative to Amazon's Kindle, which is undercutting publishers' price points: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/technology/internet/12books.html?emc=eta1