Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books".
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26 Facts About Scribd
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Scribd co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the summer of 2006.
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Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader.
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In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online.
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The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark.
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In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro.
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In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books.
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Scribd announced a partnership with HarperCollins which made the entire backlist of HarperCollins' catalog available on the subscription service.
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In March 2014, Scribd announced a deal with Lonely Planet, offering the travel publisher's entire library on its subscription service.
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Scribd has been criticized for advertising a free 14 day trial for which payment is required before readers can trial the products.
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Scribd added audiobooks to its subscription service in November 2014 and comic books in February 2015.
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In October 2018, Scribd announced a joint subscription to Scribd and The New York Times for $12.
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In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and smartphones.
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Scribd rolled out a redesign on September 13,2010, to become, according to TechCrunch, "the social network for reading".
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In October 2013, Scribd launched its e-book subscription service, allowing readers to pay a flat monthly fee in exchange for unlimited access to all of Scribd's book titles.
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In January 2011, Scribd raised an additional US$13 million in a round led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital.
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In 2019, Scribd raised $58 million in new funding led by growth firm Spectrum Equity.
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In July 2008, Scribd began using iPaper, a rich document format similar to PDF and built for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page.
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Scribd allows published documents to either be private or open to the larger Scribd community.
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Scribd iPaper required Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.
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On May 5,2010, Scribd announced that they would be converting the entire site to HTML5 at the Web 2.
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Since 2010, Scribd has been available on mobile phones and e-readers, in addition to personal computers.
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In 2007, one year after its inception, Scribd was served with 25 Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notices.
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Scribd's attorneys sought class action status in their efforts to win damages from Scribd for allegedly "egregious copyright infringement" and accused it of calculated copyright infringement for profit.
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Scribd moved to dismiss, arguing that the ADA only applied to physical locations.
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