Professional Documents
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1.1
History
Founding (2007-2013)
Scribd was called the Youtube for documents, allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document
reader. [15] The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can
be shared on any website that allows embeds. [18] In its
rst year, Scribd grew 218 percent with 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. [19] It also ranked as one of In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription
the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[20] oering with 10,000 titles from Simon & Schuster. [33]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling These titles included works from authors such as: Stephen
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Audiobooks
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC Investments of Australia and
SVB Capital.[53] In January 2015, the company raised
US$22 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures
with partner Keith Rabois joining the Scribd board of
directors.[54]
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription library. [36] Wired noted that this was the rst
subscription service to oer unlimited access to audiobooks, and it represents a much larger shift in the way
digital content is consumed over the net. [37] In April
2015, the company expanded its audiobook catalog in a
deal with Penguin Random House.[38] This added 9,000 4 Technology
audiobooks to its platform including titles from authors
like Lena Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn, and In July 2008, Scribd began using iPaper, a rich document
George R.R. Martin.[39]
format similar to PDF built for the web, which allows
users to embed documents into a web page.[55] iPaper
was built with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the
same across dierent operating systems (Windows, Mac
1.4 Comics
OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader
has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non[56]
All major document
In February 2015, Scribd introduced comics to its sub- Flash support for the iPhone).
[40]
scription service. The company added 10,000 comics types can be formatted into iPaper including Word docs,
and graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument docuArchie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW, and Valiant.[11] ments, OpenOce.org XML documents, and PostScript
Through the service, subscribers now had access to se- les.
ries such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, X-O All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows
Manowar, and The Avengers.[41][42]
published documents to either be private or open to the
larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is
also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple
to embed documents in their original layout regardless of
le format. Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be
2 Timeline
enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[57]
On May 5, 2010, Scribd announced that they would be
converting the entire site to HTML5 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.[58] TechCrunch reported that
Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. Scribd
co-founder and chief technology ocer Jared Friedman
tells me: 'We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because
we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading exScribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010 to perience than Flash. Now any document can become
become, according to TechCrunch, the social network a Web page.'"[59] In July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote
a cover story on Scribd entitled Betting the House on
for reading.[47]
[60]
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscrip- HTML5.
tion service, allowing readers to pay a at monthly fee Scribd has its own API to integrate external/thirdin exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribds book party applications,[61] but is no longer oering new API
accounts.[62]
titles.[48]
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its rst mobile plans
for e-readers and smartphones.[43] In April 2010 Scribd
launched a new feature called Readcast,[44] which allows automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and
Twitter.[45] Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its integration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8
Developer Conference.[46]
5.3
BookID
Reception
Scribd has been praised by several newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Fast Company,
Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal.[63] The company has
been dubbed the Netix for e-books[28] by Wired, and is
a known pioneer of the all-you-can-read model for ebooks.[64] Its founders, Trip Adler and Jared Friedman,
have been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc. 35 Under 35.[65][66]
In April 2015, Los Angeles favorably reviewed Scribds
subscription service by saying, Subscribing to Scribd is
sort of like shopping at Trader Joes: you may not nd every product you want, but it sure as hell is convenient,
inexpensive, and downright delectable. [67] Scribd has
grown to more than 100 million users in 75 countries who
use the site on a monthly basis.[68] As of June 2015, the
Scribd app has been downloaded 5.7 million times on Android and 3.3 million times on iOS.[69]
In July 2010, GigaOM reported that the script of The Social Network (2010) movie was uploaded and leaked on
Scribd; it was promptly taken down per Sonys DMCA
request.[81]
5.3 BookID
To counteract the uploading of unauthorized content,
Scribd created BookID, an automated copyright protection system that helps authors and publishers identify
unauthorized use of their works on Scribd. [83] This proprietary technology works by analyzing documents for semantic data, meta data, images, and other elements and
creates an encoded ngerprint of the copyrighted work.
[84]
BookID is available for free for authors and publishers
whether or not they choose to make their content available
through the Scribd platform. [85]
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Oyster (company)
Controversies
In March 2009, the passwords of several Comcast customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later
Document collaboration
Wayback Machine
Webcite
References
REFERENCES
[22] Brad Stone (11 July 2009). Simon & Schuster to Sell
Digital Books on Scribd.com. The New York Times.
Retrieved 11 October 2010.
[23] Brad Stone (June 12, 2009). Simon & Schuster to Sell
Digital Books on Scribd.com. The New York Times.
[24] From The Desk Of Your News Outlet And Scribd.
Reuters. 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-07.
[4] Scribd Adds Audiobooks To All-You-Read Library, Piling Pressure On Amazon. Forbes. November 6, 2014.
[27] MG Siegler (September 7, 2010). HP Conrms It Is Suing Mark Hurd For Potential Leakage Of Trade Secrets
To Oracle. Techcrunch.
[29] Cade Metz (October 1, 2013). Scribd Challenges Amazon and Apple with Netix for Books". Wired.
[8] David Carnoy (January 29, 2014). Scribd extends ebook subscription app to Kindle Fire. CNet.
[9] Carolyn Kellogg (January 5, 2015). Scribd brings in
$22 million to expand e-book subscription service. LA
Times.
[10] Ryan Mac (November 6, 2014). Scribd Adds Audiobooks To All-You-Read Library, Piling Pressure On
Amazon. Forbes.
[11] Anthony Ha (February 10, 2015). Scribd Adds Comics
From Marvel, IDW, And Others To Its Subscription EBook Service. TechCrunch.
[12] Cade Metz (October 1, 2013). Scribd Challenges Amazon and Apple With Netix for Books". Wired.
[13] Andy Orin (June 11, 2014). Behind the App: The Story
of Scribd. Lifehacker.
[14] Jenna Schnuer (November 8, 2013). We Test It: Scribds
All-You-Can Read Digital Buet. Entrepreneur.
[15] Jill Kransy (June 24, 2014). Scribd: The Library of the
Future?". Inc.
[16] Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010. Bloomberg.
[17] Scribd. Y Combinator.
[18] Robert MacMillan (October 7, 2009). From the desk of
[your news outlet] and Scribd. Reuters.
[19] Erick Schonfeld (December 31, 2008). Scribd Had
A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document.
Techcrunch.
[20] Scribd had a blowout year and so did the web document.
[21] Brad Stone (17 May 2009). Site Lets Writers Sell Digital
Copies. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 October
2010.
[64] Schnuer, Jenna (2013-11-08). We Test It: Scribds AllYou-Can Read Digital Buet. Entrepreneur.com. Retrieved 2013-12-31.
[54] http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/02/
scribd-khosla-funding/
[84] Michael Kozlowski (October 13, 2014). French Watchdog Accuses Scribd of eBook Piracy. Good eReader.
[85] BookID for Authors and Publishers. Scribd. June 29,
2015.
[86] Jason (February 26, 2009). Info, FAQs, and Forums/FAQ: Writing, Uploading and Managing Documents. Retrieved October 11, 2010.
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