absolutely - Graham Steel

I have no problem with people making money off a service but the whole point of putting things there for us was to make them freely available. I've no time to do this this week tho so will try to do it over weekend... - Cameron Neylon

Bummer. Wonder if this would be bad news for us too - the document content-type in the Drupal CMS uploads/retrieves info from scribd.com. Example: http://bit.ly/9r76Y8 - 'Mummi' Thorisson

@Neil The embedded PDF/ Word/etc. functionality we've found quite useful, and the Drupal ipaper module makes this pretty easy to set up. The scribd.com site itself is of little relevance. - 'Mummi' Thorisson

I don't use scribd much, but unlike Neil, like the way it sets things out. One work around is to use posterous - see http://jobadge.posterous.com/can-you... - Jo Badge

I stopped using Scribd about a year ago after my account got suspended for copyright infringement ;-) I use Posterous now instead. - Graham Steel

Apparently this is yet another one of those "we're going to just do this and let people opt out if they want to" things. The mistake they made here was not getting the word out enough in advance for people. - Mr. Gunn

From the link: "Evidently all the money they've been raking in from the Google ads they've posted on my e-book pages hasn't been enough for them." I think this is key -- you don't actually rake in money from online advertising unless you're FaceBook or Kos. It seems as though a lot of people who started with blithe assumptions about paying for everything with advertising are finding they have to make some hard decisions. - Bill Hooker

you can add documents to Slideshare too. - Elizabeth Brown

SlideShare requires a login to download the documents too :-/ - Noel O'Boyle

Damn - hadn't noticed that. Might be a weekend of submitting things to Nature Pre... - Cameron Neylon

wow that is pretty annoying - I put a copy on slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/jcbradl... - Jean-Claude Bradley

Also just submitted to Nature Precedings - all authors should get email alert - let me know if you don't as this has failed in the past - Jean-Claude Bradley

Thanks D - it found Drexel's 2 repositories - Jean-Claude Bradley

The NP version now accepted http://precedings.nature.com/documen... - Jean-Claude Bradley

kewl :) - Graham Steel