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Scribd is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that offers over one million titles. It also hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. Founded in 2007, Scribd is headquartered in San Francisco and allows subscribers to access unlimited books per month from over 1,000 publishers. Scribd began as a site to host and share documents and grew rapidly, reaching 23.5 million visitors by November 2008. It later launched an e-book subscription service accessible on smartphones, tablets and computers.

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Scribd: The New York Times Los Angeles Times Chicago Tribune The Huffington Post

Scribd is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that offers over one million titles. It also hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. Founded in 2007, Scribd is headquartered in San Francisco and allows subscribers to access unlimited books per month from over 1,000 publishers. Scribd began as a site to host and share documents and grew rapidly, reaching 23.5 million visitors by November 2008. It later launched an e-book subscription service accessible on smartphones, tablets and computers.

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Scribd

An American e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million
titles.[2][3][4][5] Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.[6]
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered
in San Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles
River Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.[7] Scribd's e-book subscription service is available
on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal
computers. Subscribers can access unlimited books a month[8] from 1,000 publishers,
including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely
Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.[9][10]
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books"
Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[12] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired
to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic
papers.[14] His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical
research published.[14] Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content
online.[15] He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y
Combinator in the summer of 2006.[16] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding
and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[6]
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using
its document reader.[14] The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents,
and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows
embeds.[17] In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008.[18] It
also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[18]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital
copies of their work online.[19] That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell
e-books on Scribd.[20] The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on
Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary
Higgins Clark.[21]
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch,
and MediaBistro.[17] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December
2009.[22] In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including
the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes,
and HP's lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle.[23][24]

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