What Is Scribd

The idea for Scribd was originally
inspired when Trip Adler was at Harvard

and had a conversation with his father,
John R. Adler, about the difficulties of
publishing academic papers. He teamed
up with co-founders Jared Friedman and
Tikhon Bernstam and they attended Y
Combinator in Cambridge in the
summer of 2006.
Scribd was launched from a San
Francisco apartment in March 2007
and quickly grew in traffic. In 2008,
it ranked as one of the top 20 social
media sites according to Comscore.

In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd
Store,
and shortly thereafter closed a deal with
Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd.

Over 900 publishers including HarperCollins,
Workman, RosettaBooks, Random House,
Wiley, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson,
Harvard University Press and Stanford
University Press are now associated with
Scribd. ProQuest began publishing
dissertations and theses on Scribd in
December 2009.
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded
reader for media companies with The New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago
Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch
and MediaBistro.
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Over 100 media companies now use Scribds
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 overturned Prop 8 and HPs lawsuit
against Mark Hurds move to Oracle
Corporation.
Timeline
In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first
mobile plans for e-readers and smartphones.

In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature
called "Readcast",

which allows automatic
sharing of documents on Facebook and
Twitter.
Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its
integration of Facebook social plug-ins at
the Facebook f8 Developer Conference.
Scribd rolled-out a re-design on September
13, 2010 to become, according to
TechCrunch, "the social network for
reading".
In October 2013, Scribd launched its ebook
subscription service, allowing readers to
pay a flat monthly fee in exchange for
unlimited access to all of Scribd's book
titles. They also announced a partnership
with HarperCollins.
The company was initially funded with
US$12,000 from Y Combinator, and
received over US$3.7 million in June 2007
from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey
Hills Group.
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, and hired as president George
Consagra, former Bebo COO and managing
director of Organic Inc.
Consagra left Scribd and became CEO of
Good Guide in August 2010.
David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and
founder of Yammer and Geni, joined
Scribds board of directors in January 2010.
In January 2011, Scribd raised its largest
round, bringing in an additional $13M. The
latest round was led by MLC Investments of
Australia and SVB Capital and included
several previous investors.
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. 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).
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.
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.
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.'"
In July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote a
cover story on Scribd entitled "Betting
the House on HTML5."
Scribd has its own API to integrate
external/third-party applications.
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 app store on iOS and
Android smartphones and tablets, the
Kindle Fire, and the Nook.
Scribd has been praised by several
newspapers and magazines, including
The New York Times, Fast Company,
Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal.

In
2013, the company was dubbed the
"Netflix for ebooks"
by Wired, and is a known pioneer of the
"all-you-can-read" model for ebooks.
According to Scribd, more than 80
million readers from over 100 countries
use the site on a monthly basis.
Their library includes more than
100,000 subscription books from 900+
publishers, and over 40 million
documents and books have been
uploaded to the site. Scribd readers
have access to books by famous authors
like Kurt Vonnegut, Paolo Coelho, and
Meg Cabot.
Notable users of Scribd include Virginia
senator Mark Warner,

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.
Scribd has often been accused of
copyright infringement. In March
2009, Scribd launched a "copyright
management system" and has
made upgrades to its system
including the reported addition of
OCR.
The New York Times reported in
May 2009 that Scribd was hosting
pirated works by authors such as
Ursula K. Le Guin, J.K. Rowling, and
Stephen King.
In September 2009, American author
Elaine Scott alleged that Scribd
"shamelessly profits from the stolen
copyrighted works of innumerable
authors."
On May 11, 2009, Motoko Rich, writing
in the New York Times, reported on
Scribd's hosting of pirated works.
In 2007, one year after its inception,
Scribd was served with 25 Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
takedown notices.
The total number of DMCA notices
that have been served to the company
is unknown,
but, on 8 January 2013, a single
author Steven Saylor notified
Scribd of 17 unauthorized uploads
of his copyrighted work.
Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx,
.ppsx)
.ppsx)
Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx)
.ppsx)
OpenDocument (.odt, .odp, .ods, .odf, .odg)
.ppsx)
OpenOffice.org XML (.sxw, .sxi, .sxc, .sxd)
.ppsx)
Plain text (.txt)
.ppsx)
Plain text (.txt)
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
.ppsx)
Plain text (.txt)
PostScript (.ps)
.ppsx)
Plain text (.txt)
PostScript (.ps)
Rich text format (.rtf)
.ppsx)
Plain text (.txt)
PostScript (.ps)
Rich text format (.rtf)
Tagged image file format (.tif, .tiff)
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