Random House, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson and Workman are among those publishers partnering with social publishing company Scribd to offer some of their content free of charge, including teaser excerpts and full-length works. “These partnerships help cement Scribd’s position as the online destination for readers while giving publishers a completely fresh platform to reach and market to a potential new audience of millions,” said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd, in today’s release. TechCrunch reports that Scribd “has actually been posting both full text and excerpts of books from some of these publishers for a few months now” […]