Following their sales partnership with BN.com, Smashwords has struck a partnership to supply their self-published and small publisher ebooks to Shortcovers as well. Smashwords says their authors and publishers will earn 46.75 percent of the digital list price on those sales. Separately, Scribd.com announced a deal to offer over 14,000 dissertations and theses from ProQuestUMI through their site. Selling at $49, they will pay 80 percent of the proceeds to ProQuest. Overall, Proquest has over 2 million dissertations and theses in its database.
