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    Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing platform, allowing users to easily share and discover written content across the web and mobile devices. Founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Scribd aims to liberate the written word and connect people with important information and ideas. Scribd quickly grew after its 2007 launch and now hosts over 50 million users and tens of millions of documents that are embedded over 10 million times across the web each day. Major publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and others partner with Scribd to publish content online.

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    Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing platform, allowing users to easily share and discover written content across the web and mobile devices. Founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Scribd aims to liberate the written word and connect people with important information and ideas. Scribd quickly grew after its 2007 launch and now hosts over 50 million users and tens of millions of documents that are embedded over 10 million times across the web each day. Major publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and others partner with Scribd to publish content online.

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    Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing platform, allowing users to easily share and discover written content across the web and mobile devices. Founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Scribd aims to liberate the written word and connect people with important information and ideas. Scribd quickly grew after its 2007 launch and now hosts over 50 million users and tens of millions of documents that are embedded over 10 million times across the web each day. Major publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and others partner with Scribd to publish content online.

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    Scribd

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    Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing platform, allowing users to easily share and discover written content across the web and mobile devices. Founded in 2006 by Trip Adler, Scribd aims to liberate the written word and connect people with important information and ideas. Scribd quickly grew after its 2007 launch and now hosts over 50 million users and tens of millions of documents that are embedded over 10 million times across the web each day. Major publishers including Random House, Simon & Schuster, and others partner with Scribd to publish content online.

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    Scribd (pronounced /ˈskrɪbd/) is the world’s largest social reading and publishing company.

    They make
    it easy to share and discover entertaining, informative and original written content across the web and
    mobile devices. Their vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people with the information and
    ideas that matter most to them. Scribd was founded by Trip Adler in 2006. Scribd's major competitors
    are Docstoc, WePapers, and issuu.History

    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
    cofounders 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 150 professional publishers including Random House, Wiley, Workman, 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. 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
    overturned Prop 8 and HP’s lawsuit against Mark Hurd’s move to Oracle.

    Adler is currently the CEO of Scribd, where he is responsible for the product and strategic direction of
    the company. BusinessWeek named Adler one of the “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010”.

    Awards/recognition

    In September 2009, BusinessWeek named Scribd one the “World’s Most Intriguing Startups”. In
    December 2009, Forbes named Scribd one of its “10 Hot Startups”. Fast Company Named Scribd “One of
    its Top 10 Most Innovative Media Companies” in February 2010.

    In May 2010, Scribd was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies” by Lead411.

    On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer
    for 2011. After the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award, Time Magazine named Scribd
    one of the “10 Start-Ups that Will Change Your Life”.

    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.[18] Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its integration of Facebook social plug-
    ins at the f8 Developer Conference. Scribd rolled-out a re-design on September 13, 2010 to become
    according to TechCrunch, “the social network for reading.”

    Reception

    Scribd has been received positively by several commentators. Scribd has been praised by several
    newspapers and has been dubbed as the potential "YouTube for documents". 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, The World Bank, Ford
    Motor Company, HewlettPackard, and Samsung.

    Scribd has currently more than 50 million users and it hosts more than tens of millions of documents.
    Scribd's documents are embedded more than 10 million times across the web and more than 1.8 million
    searches are conducted on Scribd's website everyday.

    Scribd has struck deals with several major book publishers to publish content online. These include
    Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Company, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Thomas
    Nelson, and Manning Publications.

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