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Harlequin, the world's most famous English-language romance fiction publisher, is joining the "Netflixication" of e-books. For the next year, Scribd will be the exclusive subscription partner for Harlequin and its various imprints.

Harlequin has reached an agreement with Scribd to make 15,000 of its backlist titles available, exclusively for a year, through the e-book subscription service.

The market for ebook services is starting to get more exciting as major book publishers start accepting the idea that consumers want a “Netflix for books” to satisfy their voracious reading habits.

As more startups compete in the e-book arena, Scribd is carving out a niche for itself, Post contributor Julie Earle Levine reports.

You may not know it, but you're in love. In fact, you're in love with love. According to intel released by e-book subscription service Scribd, the most popular genre of digital books in 2014 was romance, you big saps.

E-bookstores have many advantages over their physical counterparts, but the pleasures of idle browsing has never been one of them. At a time when none of the nascent e-book subscription services is lacking many of the most prominent titles that readers ma

Stepping up competition in the e-book subscription category, Scribd is launching a new browsing feature, going live today, that claims to combine the best of human and algorithmic book recommendation.

All-you-can-read subscription ebook service Scribd has received an overhaul with new smart discovery features that should help you browse for new content to read. The new look launches today on the Web and is coming to the firm’s mobile apps in the next f

Scribd wants to be to bibliophiles what Netflix is to couch potatoes. The ebook subscription service is rolling out a new browsing experience, which uses human curation and an algorithm-driven recommendation engine to facilitate user discovery.

Scribd is rolling out a revamped version of its unlimited digital book service today. Ebook subscription services are getting more popular lately, partly because Amazon finally starting to offer one of its own, Kindle Unlimited, last month

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Two startups are trying to do for e-books what Netflix does for movies. Oyster and Scribd let you read as many books as you want for a monthly price — $10 for Oyster and $9 for Scribd.

In the beginning, Scribd made it easy for anyone to publish and share written work. Now the startup is finding its niche.

Scribd began as site to simply host and share documents. Essays, poems, novels—whatever writers needed to share, Scribd offered a home for their words. And now they've grown into a fully fledged book subscription service—a Netflix for ebooks, you might sa

We'll be the first one to tell you that not every book is made to be a beach read, even if it hits bookshelves (and Kindles) post-Memorial Day. For instance, if no one has told you yet: The Fault in Our Stars is not a toes-in-the-sand kind of book. (More

Looking for a unique gift Dad will actually use? Whether he's into tech, fitness, food, grilling or grooming, Dad will love at least one of the 24 items we rounded up for a big surprise on June 15.

As a great educational theorist once observed, when released each summer from the rigorous oversight of academic professionals, children often abandon such fundamentals as the use of writing implements and reading of scholarly tomes.

Scribd Co-Founder Trip Adler discusses the subscription app to access 40 million books and documents with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Following last week's announcement that Simon & Schuster is making their backlist available to Scribd subscribers, at BEA Scribd announced an agreement with the Perseus Books Group as well.

Once a non-starter among publishers, authors and agents, all-you-can-read ebook subscription services have arrived.

Simon & Schuster has agreed to make available more than 10,000 older titles to nascent e-book subscription businesses Oyster and Scribd, making it the second major book publisher to test consumer interest in Netflix-like reading services.

Another big-five publisher is seeing the value of ebook subscription models: Simon & Schuster is making its entire backlist of about 10,000 titles available on Scribd and Oyster. Conveniently, S&S author Stephen King is the #1 most-searched author on both

Two major services hoping to become 'Netflix for e-books' got a big boost Wednesday: Simon & Schuster has made its backlist available to both Oyster and Scribd.

Simon & Schuster has signed on to make its books available on Scribd and Oyster, two separate services that have been described as the Netflix of books.

Simon & Schuster has reached an agreement with subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd to make 10,000 of its backlist e-books available to subscribers. This is S&S’s first time offering its titles via e-book subscription services.

When two startups, called Oyster and Scribd, launched platforms last Fall, they were each hailed as “Netflix for books.” Like Netflix or Spotify, their platforms offer users unlimited consumption of digital media, in this case, books, for a monthly fee.

Personal finance expert Lauren Lyons Cole joins TODAY to help viewers decide whether it’s better to buy or rent.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2014 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 300,000+ e-books ranging from contemporary bestsellers to beloved classics, today announced its expansion into educational reading with an unprecedented partnership with Wiley

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2014 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 300,000+ e-books ranging from contemporary bestsellers to beloved classics, today launched its new travel category by announcing an unprecedented partnership with Lonely Plane

Subscription e-book startup Scribd is announcing a deal with famed travel publisher Lonely Planet.

According to Scribd, an expansive e-book library, the literary selections above are the most widely read in those five locales. Wondering about your state? See the full list below.

You've finally finished the book your co-worker recommended, so what to read next? If it is 5 a.m., chances are that you're reaching for a romance novel—especially if you're in Texas or Georgia. By early morning, thrillers might start to look more appe

SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2014 — Scribd, a book subscription service featuring 100,000+ books including contemporary bestsellers and beloved classics, is celebrating three million mobile downloads with the launch of an app for Kindle Fire, based on its

Scribd has thrown down a gauntlet against the reigning ebook champion Amazon with the release of an app for enjoying its subscription ebook service on Amazon’s own Kindle Fire tablet.

Scribd, hailed as the YouTube of documents and now trying to become the Netflix of digital books, has launched a Kindle Fire app.

The recently launched Scribd subscription e-book service is adding an app for the Kindle Fire tablet as well as providing updates to its iOS and Android apps. The service, which provides users access to more than 100,000 titles for $8.99 a month, reports

An avid surfer and sometime street-busking saxophonist with a Harvard degree in biophysics, Adler is a man of many interests.

Smashwords has also just signed a distribution deal with Scribd, the content upload and sharing site.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2013 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 100,000+ titles including thousands of bestsellers and new releases, today announced it has signed a deal with Smashwords , the world’s largest distributor of independen

Scribd offers 1,000 titles in its Cookbooks & Food category, a cornucopia of culinary content that’s bound to inspire anyone with an interest in gastronomy.

As a book lover, I’m excited about the different ways technology has made it convenient for avid book readers, especially with ebook subscription services. - See more at: http://coolmomtech.com/2013/12/which-is-best-ereader-subscription-service/#sthash.Gz

Scribd is offering gift cards for its eBook subscription service this holiday season.

As competitors in the e-book subscription market, Scribd and Oyster like to emphasize their differences. Yet the two share a common talking point: They both drop the name HarperCollins.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 26, 2013 — Scribd, an eBook subscription service featuring +100,000 books, including bestselling and new release titles, today announced its new gift subscriptions, which are accompanied by e-Cards with book cover art inspired by

ONE DAY, HUNCHING in front of a computer screen or squinting at a smartphone to read anything longer than a tweet will seem barbaric. To engage with text thoughtfully and comfortably, e-readers and tablets are still the most evolved gadgets, especially wh

Scribd, which one month ago launched a subscription plan to allow users to download an unlimited number of books for $8.99 per month, has hit a big milestone: 1 million books bookmarked by users.

As an undergraduate at Harvard, John R. "Trip" Adler III explored medicine, biophysics and investment banking before realizing what he really wanted to do: be an entrepreneur.

In a recent interview with The New York Times Sunday Book Review, author Donna Tartt said “I’ve always got a dozen books going, which is why my suitcases are always so heavy.”

Many publishing industry observers don’t think that Oyster or Scribd or any other “Netflix or Spotify for ebooks” will work in the consumer marketplace. Why?

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books.

HarperCollins is the latest publisher to try a Netflix-style e-book subscription service, announcing on Tuesday that it has struck a deal to make its backlist books available on Scribd, a Web site for sharing documents and books.

News Corp's (NWS, NWSA) HarperCollins Publishers has agreed to make available the majority of its U.S. backlist titles to a books subscription service operated by Scribd Inc., a Web-based service.

For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content: movies, TV shows, music, news, video games. Could that same model soon become popular in the world of publishing?

SAN FRANCISCO, October 1, 2013 — Scribd,the world’s largest global, multi-platform digital library of books and other written works, today launched a book subscription service available for a flat-rate plan of $8.99 per month.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online document-sharing site Scribd is taking a page from Netflix's success story as it sets out to create the world's largest subscription service for digital books.

Scribd, Inc. the world’s largest social reading and publishing company, today announced the roll-out of HTML5 code for all websites currently displaying Scribd content in Flash.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on tomorrow's tech trendsetters, including Scribd, an online site designed for readers and writers.

SAN FRANCISCO – January 18, 2011 Scribd, Inc. today announced that it has closed $13 million in Series C financing led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital, with re-investment from all previous investors...

SAN FRANCISCO – August 10, 2009 – Scribd, the world’s largest social publishing company, today announced the launch of redesigned, more interactive pages on Scribd.com.

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Scribd Goes Mobile, Simplifies Reading-On-The-Go "Send to Device" Feature and Scribd Open Content Platform Give ConsumersOne-Click Access to Millions of Unique Written Works on Billions of Devices

Somewhere between Google Books, Amazon, and the blogosphere lies Scribd, a community of "millions of readers, millions of documents." Anyone can upload, comment, tag, vote up and down, and share any piece of text.

Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com In another sign that book publishers are looking to embrace alternatives to Amazon.com's Kindle e-book store, Simon & Schuster has agreed to sell digital copies of its books on Scribd.com

SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2009 – Scribd, Inc., the world’s largest social publishing website, today announced that it has partnered with major publishers to bring books and other professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers.

The biggest surprise fro me in the social media rankings that I posted earlier today was the appearance of document sharing service Scribd in the top 20.