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 ...

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, ...

First, Scribd applied the Netflix model to books, offering unlimited access to an online library of popular titles for a flat monthly fee. Then it did the same for audio books. And now it’s moving ...

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 ...

The online document repository is rebuilding without Adobe's plug-in. Also: the new Scribd adds support for Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books. The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an ...

Scribd has partnered with more than 10 comic book publishers, including Marvel, Archie, IDW, and Arcana. It’s the first ebook subscription service to lock down a comic book partnership of this size.

Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd says it’s grown to more than 1 million subscribers. It still has a long way to go before reaching the heights of Netflix (nearly 150 million ...

Scribd, one of the last surviving e-book subscription services hoping to become the “Netflix for books,” is revising its policies to do away with unlimited lending from the service’s full library, ...

Trip Adler, the CEO Of Scribd, an e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes over one million titles, has been on a mission to change the way the world reads. His platform provides access ...

It's much easier to spend your Internet time watching funny cat videos than to actually do something productive, but the educational stuff is out there. Take Scribd, for instance: a virtual library of ...