Scribd just raised $13 million in its third round of funding, bringing their total funding to $25.8 million over the past 4 years. “2011 is going to be a milestone year for us,” Scribd CEO and co-founder Trip Adler said in a statement. “As the world rapidly changes the way it reads content on the [...]
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Scribd Stats: A Social Dashboard for Reading
December 6th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
I wanted to call attention to a recent announcement from Scribd that didn’t get a lot of visibility. The service, called Scribd Stats, provides authors/publishers with an assortment of information on who’s reading their content, what pieces they’re reading, etc.
The Scribd Archive was a bait & switch
September 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion
You might recall the moderate sized ruckus this week when Scribd started their archive program without telling anyone. Basically Scribd decided that any file uploaded more than a few months ago was now in the “archive”, and they started charging access. The ruckus happened because one, they did not bother to tell anyone and two, [...]
First draft of Beiber biography now available on Scribd
August 12th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
Do you remember when the Justin Bieber biography was announced last week? The satirical twitterati EvilWylie spent the day tweeting supposed excerpts of the book. Some excerpts were hilarious (but you have to know who Bieber is in order to get the jokes). EvilWylie just announced that the first draft of his version of the [...]
Free comics from Scribd
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, free ebooks
From the Scribd blog: Today marks the beginning of Comic-Con 2010 and to celebrate Scribd has partnered with Liquid Comics and HP to offer free comics from celebrity creators Ed Burns, Guy Ritchie, Deepak Chopra, and Grant Morrison. Fans can browse the full Comic-Con Scribd collection here, read on the go using our send-to-device feature, or be [...]
Scribd dropping Flash in a Flash
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
TechChrunch is reporting that Scribd has ramped up their efforts to move content out of Flash and into HTML5: Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Scribd CEO and co-founder Jared Friedman, is announcing that the startup has moved much of its content, including tens of millions of books, magazines, newspapers, presentations, research and more, to the HTML5 [...]
Scribd to ditch Flash for HTML5
May 5th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
TechCrunch is reporting: Adobe’s much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs, Powerpoint slides) can mostly be viewed only as boxed off curiosities in a Flash player, not as full Web pages. Tomorrow, online [...]
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