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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 subscrip
tion service that includes New York Times Best-Sellers and classics.
Launched in 2007 by Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, and headquartered in San Fran
cisco, CA, Scribd also features written works contributed by users around the wo
rld. Backed by Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures, Scri
bd 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 sm
artphones 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 fr
om over 900 publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon and Schuster, RosettaBoo
ks, and Workman.[3] In November 2014, audiobooks were added without an additiona
l fee to the subscription.[4]
Contents
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History
Timeline
Financials
Technology
Reception
5.1 Accusations of copyright infringement
5.2 Controversies
Supported file formats
See also
References
External links

History
The idea for Scribd was originally inspired when Trip Adler was at Harvard and h
ad a conversation with his father, John R. Adler, about the difficulties of publ
ishing 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 gre
w in traffic. In 2008, it ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites accordi
ng to Comscore.[6] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store[7] and shortly the
reafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.[8] Over 90
0 publishers, including HarperCollins, Harvard University Press, Houghton Miffli

n Harcourt, Wiley, Pearson, Random House, RosettaBooks, Stanford University Pres

s, 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, TechCr
unch, and MediaBistro.[9] Over 100 media companies now use Scribd s 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 over
turned Prop 8 and HP s lawsuit against Mark Hurd s move to Oracle Corporation.[citat
ion needed]
In October 2013, Scribd officially launched the first unlimited access subscript
ion service for digital books, often called the "Netflix for ebooks",[10] giving
readers unlimited access to Scribd library.[11] The company also announced a pa
rtnership with major publishing company HarperCollins.[2] The official statement
revealed that the "majority" of the HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Christia
n catalogs will be available in Scribd's subscription service. Chantal Restivo-A
lessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, explained to the media that the d
eal represents the first time that the publisher has released such a large porti
on 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 Ventu
res with partner Keith Rabois joining the Scribd board of directors.[14]