Scribd is moving into the original content business with the release of “Mueller’s War,” a book by journalist Garrett Graff looking at the prosecutor’s time as a marine in the Vietnam War. CEO Trip ...

Scribd, the digital subscription reading and listening platform, launched in 2007 and has since attracted 1.9 million subscribers and more than 200 million unique monthly visitors from 190 countries, ...

Two years after shifting away from its unlimited subscription model in favor of monthly credits, Scribd has announced that its subscribers will once again be able to access the entirety of its vast ...

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

Scribd’s announcement last week that it has passed the one-million subscriber mark is just one indication that the online subscription service has cemented itself as a major player in the distribution ...

If a writer knew which parts of her book people read, would it change how and what she wrote? If marketers knew which parts of their brochure people read, would it change how they put the brochure ...

Shortly after its 2006 launch, Scribd.com stumbled across an easy way to explain what it did: it called itself "YouTube for documents". The phrase sounded snappy enough, and even if was a little ...

Reading platform Scribd is introducing a new way for readers to discover nonfiction books. The feature is called Snapshots, and it’s akin to a CliffsNotes version of a book you can find on the company ...

Scribd co-founders Jared Friedman (left) and Trip Adler (right) decided to pivot the business last year. “We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model,” Adler says.

Scribd was first founded as a document-hosting site in 2007 before pivoting to a subscription service for books in 2013. Its "all-you-can-read" Netflix-style model was similar to Kindle Unlimited, but ...

A few days ago Law professor Eric Goldman wrote a vehement blog post entitled, “Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist” denouncing the recently enacted paywalls around ...