Scribd Inc

Scribd Inc.
/ˈskrɪbd/ is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one

million titles.[1][2][3][4] Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.[5]
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.[6] 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[7] from 1,000 publishers,
including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely
Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.[8][9]
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books".[10][11][12]
Contents
 1History
o 1.1Founding (2007–2013)
o 1.2Subscription service (2013–present)
o 1.3Audiobooks
o 1.4Comics
 2Timeline
 3Financials
 4Technology
 5Reception
o 5.1Accusations of copyright infringement
o 5.2Controversies
o 5.3BookID
 6Supported file formats
 7See also
 8References
 9External links
History[edit]
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Founding (2007–2013)[edit]
Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[11] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to
start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic papers.[13] His
father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research
published.[13] Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content online.[14] He
co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the
summer of 2006.[15] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a
San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[5]
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its
document reader.[13] The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web
documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds.[16] In its first year, Scribd grew
rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008.[17] It also ranked as one of the top 20 social
media sites according to Comscore.[17]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital
copies of their work online.[18] That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-
books on Scribd.[19] 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.[20]
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.
[16]
ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009.[21] 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.[22][23]
Subscription service (2013–present)[edit]
Screenshots of Scribd's subscription service
In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books. This gave
users unlimited access to Scribd's library of digital books for a flat monthly fee.[10] The company also
announced a partnership with HarperCollins which made the entire backlist of HarperCollins' catalog
available on the subscription service.[24] According to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer
at HarperCollins, this marked the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its
catalog.[25] In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering the travel publisher's
entire library on its subscription service.[26]
In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription offering with 10,000 titles from Simon &
Schuster.[27] These titles included works from authors such as: Ray Bradbury, Doris Kearns
Goodwin, Ernest Hemingw

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