Screwed By Scribd

Through a recommendation from a fellow writer at Kindleboards, I decided to test out Scribd, a website that lets you "upload your PDF, Word, and PowerPoint docs to share them with the world's largest community of readers." I eagerly went ahead an uploaded the first three chapters to Someday . I received the following e-mail:

Hello, ---------,

We have removed your document "Scribd Preview" (id: ########) because our text matching system determined that it was very similar to a work that has...