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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.