Opposite Day: Scribd E-Book Writer's Jump to Mainstream

Earlier today, BoomTown posted a video interview with Scribd CEO Trip Adler about the online publishing start-up.

Now, here is a video of a chat I had with Kemble Scott, an author who has made use of the service in an innovative backwards effort at traditional publishing.

While the San Francisco writer published his last novel via a traditional publisher, he did not want to wait as long for his next, titled “The Sower.”

So he published it on Scribd for a few dollars a piece, and it was a modest success, even more so since he also garnered a lot of fans via sampling the book.

But it was enough to attract Numina Press, which then rushed the book into print. Now, it is doing well both online and offline.

Here is my talk with Scott about the experience, one sure to be replicated more and more in the future: