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Scribd Scribd logo.svg
Type Private
Founded
San Francisco, California, USA
(March 2007)
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people
Trip Adler (CEO, co-founder),
Jared Friedman (CTO, co-founder),
Tikhon Bernstam (COO, co-founder)
Services
Social reading and publishing platform
Website
Scribd.com
Alexa rank
negative increase 352 (December 2014)[1]
Type of site Social Software
Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese
Current status Active
Scribd /'skr?bd/ is a digital library, featuring an ebook and audiobook subscription service that includes New York
Times Best-Sellers and classics.
Launched in 2007 by Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Scribd also features
written works contributed by users around the world. Backed by Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, and Redpoint
Ventures, Scribd serves more than 80 million active readers coming to the site every month.[2]
Scribd's subscription service is available on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone smartphones and tablets, as well as the
Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers for a fee which lets readers have unlimited access to more than 500,000
books from over 900 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, RosettaBooks, and Workman.[3] In
November 2014, audiobooks were added without an additional fee to the subscription.[4]
Contents
1 History
2 Timeline
3 Financials
4 Technology
5 Reception
5.1 Accusations of copyright infringement
5.2 Controversies
6 Supported file formats
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
History
The idea for Scribd was originally inspired when Trip Adler was at Harvard and had a conversation with his father,
John R. Adler, about the difficulties of publishing academic papers. He teamed up with co-founders Jared Friedman
and Tikhon Bernstamm and they attended Y Combinator in Cambridge in the summer of 2006.[5] Scribd was launched
from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007 and quickly grew in traffic. In 2008, it ranked as one of the top 20
social media sites according to Comscore.[6] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store[7] and shortly thereafter
closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[8] Over 900 publishers, including HarperCollins,

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Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Wiley, Pearson, Random House, RosettaBooks, Stanford
University Press, and Workman, are now[when?] associated with Scribd.[citation needed] ProQuest began publishing
dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009.[citation needed]
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies with The New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro.[9] Over 100 media companies now use
Scribds branded reader to embed source material into their stories. In August 2010, news stories began to break and
documents and books began to go viral on Scribd including the overturned Prop 8 and HPs lawsuit against Mark
Hurds move to Oracle Corporation.[citation needed]
In October 2013, Scribd officially launched the first unlimited access subscription service for digital books, often
called the "Netflix for ebooks",[10] giving readers unlimited access to Scribd library.[11] The company also announced
a partnership with major publishing company HarperCollins.[2] The official statement revealed that the "majority" of
the HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Christian catalogs will be available in Scribd's subscription service. Chantal
Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, explained to the media that the deal represents the first time that
the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog.[12]
As of December 2013, Adler is the CEO of Scribd, where he is responsible for the product and strategic direction of
the company. Adler was named in BusinessWeek's "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010" list.[13]
In January 2015, the company raised $22 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures with partner Keith Rabois
joining the Scribd board of directors.[14]

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