Scribd: 1 History
Scribd: 1 History
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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
the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore.[20]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling In May 2014, Scribd further increased its subscription
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by Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group.[50] David O.
Sacks, former PayPal COO and founder of Yammer and
Geni, joined Scribds board of directors in January 2010.
[51]
In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC Investments of Australia and
1.3 Audiobooks
SVB Capital.[52] In January 2015, the company raised
In November 2014, Scribd added audiobooks to its sub- US$22 million in new funding from Khosla Ventures
Keith Rabois joining the Scribd board of
scription library. [35] Wired noted that this was the rst with partner
[53]
directors.
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. [36] In April
2015, the company expanded its audiobook catalog in a
deal with Penguin Random House.[37] This added 9,000
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audiobooks to its platform including titles from authors
like Lena Dunham, John Grisham, Gillian Flynn, and
George R.R. Martin.[38]
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.[54] iPaper
1.4 Comics
was built with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the
same across dierent operating systems (Windows, Mac
In February 2015, Scribd introduced comics to its sub- OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader
scription service. [39] The company added 10,000 comics has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced nonand graphic novels from publishers including Marvel, Flash support for the iPhone).[55] All major document
Archie, Boom! Studios, Dynamite, IDW, and Valiant. types can be formatted into iPaper including Word docs,
[11]
Through the service, subscribers now had access to PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument docuseries such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, X-O ments, OpenOce.org XML documents, and PostScript
Manowar, and The Avengers. [40][41]
les.
All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows
published documents to either be private or open to the
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larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is
also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its rst mobile plans to embed documents in their original layout regardless of
for e-readers and smartphones.[42] In April 2010 Scribd le format. Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be
launched a new feature called Readcast,[43] which al- enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[56]
lows automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and
On May 5, 2010, Scribd announced that they would be
Twitter.[44] Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its inconverting the entire site to HTML5 at the Web 2.0 Contegration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Facebook f8
ference in San Francisco.[57] TechCrunch reported that
[45]
Developer Conference.
Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. Scribd
Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13, 2010 to co-founder and chief technology ocer Jared Friedman
become, according to TechCrunch, the social network tells me: 'We are scrapping three years of Flash develfor reading.[46]
opment and betting the company on HTML5 because
In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscrip- we believe HTML5 is a dramatically better reading exFlash. Now any document can become
tion service, allowing readers to pay a at monthly fee perience than [58]
In July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote
in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribds book a Web page.'"
a cover story on Scribd entitled Betting the House on
titles.[47]
HTML5.[59]
Financials
Scribd has its own API to integrate external/thirdparty applications,[60] but is no longer oering new API
accounts.[61]
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.
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Reception
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Controversies
In March 2009, the passwords of several Comcast customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later
removed when the news was published by The New York
Times.[77][78][79]
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.[80]
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.
[66] Thomas Harlander (April 16, 2015). E-Book Throwdown: Which Digital Library Service is Right for You?".
LA Mag.
[53] http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/02/
scribd-khosla-funding/
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