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by anuraggoel 6303 days ago
"But these options aren’t conducive to sharing content that you’ve discovered on the web, as they don’t allow your to embed them in your blogs and websites."

False. The Google Book Search API allows you to do precisely that: http://code.google.com/apis/books/

Scribd allows user uploads though, and that seems to be their biggest differentiator right now.