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Scribd /skrbd/ is a digital library and 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 three 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."[11][12][13]
Founding (20072013)[edit]
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 $12,000 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.[19]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and
sell digital copies of their work online.[20] That same month, the site partnered
with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd.[21] 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.[22]
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.[23] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and
theses on Scribd in December 2009.[24] 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 HPs lawsuit
against Mark Hurds move to Oracle.[25] [26]

Subscription service (2013present)[edit]

Screenshots of Scribd's subscription service

In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-
books.[27] This gave users unlimited access to Scribds library of digital books for a flat
monthly fee.[28] The company also announced a partnership with HarperCollins which
made the entire backlist of HarperCollins catalog available on the subscription
service.[29] 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.[30] In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering the
travel publishers entire library on its subscription service.[31]
In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription offering with 10,000 titles
from Simon & Schuster.[32] These titles included works from authors such as: Ray
Bradbury, Mary Higgins Clark, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ernest Hemingway, Walter
Isaacson, Stephen King, Chuck Klosterman, and David McCullough.[33]
Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription service in November 2014 and comic
books in February 2015.[34][35]
In February 2016, it was announced that only titles from a rotating selection of the
library would be available for unlimited reading, and subscribers would have credits
to read three books and one audiobook per month from the entire library; unused
credits roll over to the next month.[36]

Audiobooks[edit]
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription
library.[37] Wired noted that this was the first subscription service to offer unlimited
access to audiobooks, and "it represents a much larger shift in the way digital content
is consumed over the net." [38] In April 2015, the company expanded its audiobook
catalog in a deal with Penguin Random House.[39] This added 9,000 audiobooks to its
platform including titles from authors like Lena Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn,
and George R.R. Martin.[40]

Comics[edit]
In February 2015, Scribd introduced comics to its subscription service.[41] The
company added 10,000 comics and graphic novels from publishers
including Marvel, Archie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW, and Valiant.[35] Through the
service, subscribers now had access to series such as Guardians of the
Galaxy, Daredevil, X-O Manowar, and The Avengers.[42][43] However, in December
2016, comics were pulled from the service due to low demand.

Timeline[edit]
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers
and smartphones.[44] In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called
"Readcast",[45] which allows automatic sharing of documents
on Facebook and Twitter.[46] Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its integration of
Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference.[47]
Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010 to become, according to
TechCrunch, "the social network for reading".[48]
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscription service, allowing readers to
pay a flat monthly fee in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribd's book titles. [49]

Financials[edit]
The company was initially funded with US$12,000 from Y Combinator in 2006, and
received over US$3.7 million in June 2007 from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey
Hills Group.[50][51] In December 2008, the company raised US$9 million in a second
round of funding led by Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint
Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group.[52] David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and
founder of Yammer and Geni, joined Scribds board of directors in January 2010.[53]
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC
Investments of Australia and SVB Capital.[54] 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.[55]

Technology[edit]
In July 2008, Scribd began using iPaper, a rich document format similar to PDF built
for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page. [56] iPaper was
built with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating
systems (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader
has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non-Flash support for the
iPhone).[57] All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including Word
docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument documents, OpenOffice.org
XML documents, and PostScript files.
All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows 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 file format. Scribd iPaper
required Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[58]
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.[59] TechCrunch reported that
Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief
technology officer 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 experience than Flash. Now any document can become a
Web page.'"[60] In July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote a cover story on Scribd entitled
"Betting the House on HTML5."[61]
Scribd has its own API to integrate external/third-party applications,[62] but is no longer
offering new API accounts.[63]
Since 2010, Scribd has been available on mobile phones and e-readers, in addition
to personal computers. As of December 2013, Scribd is available through the various
app stores on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire
and Nook tablets.

Reception[edit]
Scribd has been praised by several newspapers and magazines, including The New
York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal.[64] The company
has been dubbed the "Netflix for e-books"[27] by Wired, and is a known pioneer of the
"all-you-can-read" model for e-books.[65] Its founders, Trip Adler and Jared Friedman,
have been named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and Inc. 35 Under 35.[66][67]
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
find every product you want, but it sure as hell is convenient, inexpensive, and
downright delectable. [68]Scribd has grown to more than 100 million users in 75
countries who use the site on a monthly basis.[69] As of June 2015, the Scribd app has
been downloaded 5.7 million times on Android and 3.3 million times on iOS. [70]
Notable users of Scribd include Virginia senator Mark Warner,[71] former California
gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, New York Times DealBook reporter Andrew
Ross Sorkin, All Things D Reporter Kara Swisher, the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission(FCC), Red Cross, UNICEF, World Economic Forum, United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe, The World Bank, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-
Packard, Samsung and the Hasmonean High School Living Torah.

Accusations of copyright infringement[edit]

Scribd has been accused of copyright infringement. In September 2009, American
author Elaine Scott alleged that Scribd "shamelessly profits from the stolen
copyrighted works of innumerable authors".[72] Her attorneys sought class
action status in their efforts to win damages from Scribd for allegedly "egregious
copyright infringement" and accused it of calculated copyright infringement for
profit.[73][74][75] The suit was dropped in July 2010.[76][77]
In 2007, one year after its inception, Scribd was served with 25 Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices.[78]
The Guardian writes, "Harry Potter author [J.K. Rowling] is among writers shocked to
discover their books available as free downloads. Neil Blair, Rowling's lawyer, said
the Harry Potter downloads were 'unauthorised and unlawful'...Rowling's novels
aren't the only ones to be available from Scribd. A quick search throws up novels
from Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Jeffrey Archer, Ken Follett, Philippa Gregory,
and JRR Tolkien.." [1][79]