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San Francisco, California, USA (March 2007) Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA Key people Trip Adler (CEO, co-founder), Jared Friedman (CTO, co-founder), Tikhon Bernstam (CIO, co-founder) Services Social reading and publishing platform Website Scribd.com Alexa rank Steady 293 (September 2013)[1] Type of site Social Software Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese Current status Active Scribd /'skr?bd/ is a document-sharing website that allows users to post documen ts of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. S cribd was founded by Trip Adler, Tikhon Bernstam, and Jared Friedman in 2006.[2] Scribd's major competitors are Slideshare, Docstoc, edocr, WePapers, and Issuu. [3]

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Awards/recognition 3 Timeline 4 Financials 5 Technology 6 Reception 7 Criticism 8 Controversy 9 Supported file formats 10 See also 11 References 12 External links History[edit source] The idea for Scribd was originally inspired when Trip Adler was at Harvard and h ad a conversation with his father, John R. Adler, about the difficulties of publ ishing academic papers. He teamed up with cofounders Jared Friedman and Tikhon B ernstam and they attended Y Combinator in Cambridge in the summer of 2006.[citat ion needed] 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 s ites according to Comscore.[4] In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store,[5] an

d shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scrib d.[6] Over 150 publishers including Random House, Wiley, Workman, Houghton Miffl in 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, TechCr unch and MediaBistro.[7] 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 overt urned Prop 8 and HP s lawsuit against Mark Hurd s move to Oracle Corporation. Adler is currently the CEO of Scribd, where he is responsible for the product an d strategic direction of the company. BusinessWeek named Adler one of the Best Yo ung Tech Entrepreneurs 2010 .[8] Awards/recognition[edit source] In September 2009, BusinessWeek named Scribd one the World s Most Intriguing Startu ps .[9] In December 2009, Forbes named Scribd one of its 10 Hot Startups .[10] Fast C ompany named Scribd One of its Top 10 Most Innovative Media Companies in February 2010.[11] In May 2010, Scribd was recognized as one of the nies by Lead411.[12] 2010 Hottest San Francisco Compa

On September 1, 2010, the World Economic Forum announced the company as a Techno logy Pioneer for 2011.[13][14] After the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award, Time Magazine named Scribd one of the 10 Start-Ups that Will Change Your Life .[15] Timeline[edit source] In February phones.[16] hich allows April 2010, Facebook f8 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and smart In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called "Readcast",[17] w automatic sharing of documents on Facebook and Twitter.[18] Also in Scribd announced its integration of Facebook social plug-ins at the Developer Conference.[19]

Scribd rolled-out a re-design on September 13, 2010 to become, according to Tech Crunch, the social network for reading .[20] Financials[edit source] The company was initially funded with US$12,000 from Y Combinator, and received over US$3.7 million in June 2007 from Redpoint Ventures and The Kinsey Hills Gro up.[21][22] In December 2008, the company raised US$9 million in a second round of funding, led by Charles River Ventures with re-investment from Redpoint Ventu res and Kinsey Hills Group, and hired as president George Consagra, former Bebo COO and managing director of Organic Inc.[23] Consagra left Scribd and became CE O of Good Guide in August 2010. David O. Sacks, former PayPal COO and founder of Yammer and Geni, joined Scribd s board of directors in January 2010. Scribd hired Robert Macdonald, former head o f media and publisher partnerships at Google, in July 2010 as its SVP of busines s development and opened a New York office.[24] Scribd also utilizes Google Adve rtisements for revenue generation.[25] It also makes revenue from Scribd Store s ales.[26] In August 2010 it began beta testing premium services.

Scribd raised its largest round in January 2011 bringing in an additional $13M. The latest round was led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital and inc luded several previous investors.[27] Technology[edit source] Scribd used iPaper, which is a rich document format similar to PDF built for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page.[28] iPaper was buil t with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non-Flash support for the iPh one).[29] All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including Word d ocs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenDocument documents, OpenOffice.org XML documents, and PostScript files. All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either be private or open to the larger Scribd community. The iPaper document vi ewer is also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple to embed docume nts in their original layout regardless of file format. Scribd iPaper requires Flash cookies to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[30] If the requirements are not met, there is no message; the white o r gray display area is simply blank. Scribd launched its own API to power external/third-party applications. However, only a few applications use this API.[31] On May 5, 2010, Scribd launched the largest implementation of HTML5 to date at t he Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco.[32] TechCrunch reported that Scribd is m igrating away from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief technology offic er Jared Friedman tells me: 'We are scrapping three years of Flash development a nd betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically bette r reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page.'"[33] I n July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote a cover story on Scribd entitled Betting the House on HTML5. [34] Reception[edit source] Scribd has been praised by several newspapers[which?] and has been dubbed as the potential "YouTube for documents".[35] Notable users of Scribd include Virginia senator Mark Warner,[36] former Califor nia gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, New York Times DealBook reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, All Things D Reporter Kara Swisher, the U.S. Federal Communication s Commission (FCC), Red Cross, UNICEF, World Economic Forum, United Nations Econ omic Commission for Europe, The World Bank, Ford Motor Company, HewlettPackard, Samsung and the Hasmonean High School Living Torah. Scribd has currently more than 50 million users and it hosts more than tens of m illions 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 web site everyday.[37] Criticism[edit source] Scribd has often been accused of copyright infringement. In March 2009, Scribd l aunched a copyright management system and has made upgrades to the system includ ing the addition of OCR. The New York Times reported in May 2009 that Scribd hos ted pirated works by authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin.[38]

In September 2009, American author Elaine Scott alleged that Scribd "shamelessly profits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors."[39] Her atto rneys Joe Sibley and Kiwi Camara sought class action status in their efforts to win damages from Scribd for allegedly "egregious copyright infringement."[40][41 ] On May 11, 2009, Motoko Rich, writing in the New York Times, reported on Scrib d's hosting of pirated works. Sibley Camara filed a class action lawsuit against Scribd, accusing it of calculated copyright infringement for profit.[42] The su it was dropped in July 2010.[43][44] In 2007, one year after its inception, Scribd had been served with 25 DMCA take down notices.[45] It is not known how many DMCA notices have been served up to n ow, but on 8 January 2013, a single author, Steven Saylor, notified Scribd of 17 unauthorized uploads of his copyrighted work.[46] Controversy[edit source] In March 2009, the passwords of several Comcast customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later removed when the news was published by The New York Ti mes.[47][48][49] In July 2010, GigaOM reported that the script of The Social Network movie was up loaded and leaked on Scribd; it was promptly taken down per Sony s DMCA request.[5 0] Supported file formats[edit source] Supported formats include:[51] Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx) Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps, .pptx, .ppsx) Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) OpenDocument (.odt, .odp, .ods, .odf, .odg) OpenOffice.org XML (.sxw, .sxi, .sxc, .sxd) Plain text (.txt) Portable Document Format (.pdf) PostScript (.ps) Rich text format (.rtf) Tagged image file format (.tif, .tiff) See also[edit source] Document collaboration Google Docs Slideshare Wayback Machine Webcite Yudu Media References[edit source] 1.Jump up ^ "Scribd.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2013-09-01. 2.Jump up ^ "Publishers, Authors Weigh Merits of Scribd". 3.Jump up ^ "Scribd raises 9 million". GigaOM. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 4.Jump up ^ "Scribd had a blowout year and so did the web document". 5.Jump up ^ Brad Stone (17 May 2009). "Site Lets Writers Sell Digital Copies". T he New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2010. 6.Jump up ^ Brad Stone (11 July 2009). "Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books o n Scribd.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2010. 7.Jump up ^ "From The Desk Of Your News Outlet And Scribd". Reuters. 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-10-07. 8.Jump up ^ "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010". Business Week. Retrieved 2010. 9.Jump up ^ "The World's Most Intriguing Startups". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2010

-01-01. 10.Jump up ^ Caulfield, Brian. "The Next Hot Start-Ups". Forbes. Retrieved 200912-03. 11.Jump up ^ "Most Innovative Media Companies". Fast Company. Retrieved 2010-0101. 12.Jump up ^ "Lead411 launches "Hottest Companies in San Francisco" awards". 13.Jump up ^ "Thirty-One Visionary Companies Selected as Technology Pioneers 201 1". 14.Jump up ^ "Foursquare, Scribd, And Spotify To Be Dubbed 2011 Technology Pione ers At Davos". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 15.Jump up ^ "Tech Pioneers: 10 Start-Ups That Will Change Your Life". Time. Ret rieved 2010-01-01. 16.Jump up ^ Fowler, Geoffrey A. (2010-02-10). "Scribd Plans Mobile Application" . Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2010-02-10. 17.Jump up ^ "Scribd gets 'Readcasting': Autosharing made easy". CNet. Retrieved 2010-04-21. 18.Jump up ^ "Scribd launches readcast". Marketwire. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 19.Jump up ^ "Scribd's bet on the Facebook Effect". CNN. 2010-04-21. Retrieved 2 010-04-21. 20.Jump up ^ "Scribd Redesign Is An Attempt To Become A "Social Network For Read ing"". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2010-09-13. 21.Jump up ^ "Scribd Banks $3.5 Million from Redpoint". CrunchBase Company Profile". 22.Jump up ^ "Scribd 23.Jump up ^ "Scribd raises $9 million, hires new president for social publishin g". 24.Jump up ^ "Digital Musical Chairs: Google Exec to Scribd, Apple Exec to AOL, Yahoo Exec to Google!". All Things Digital. Retrieved 2010-07-19. 25.Jump up ^ "Scribd". appappeal.com. 29 March 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 26.Jump up ^ Johnson, Bobbie (22 July 2009). "scribd". London: guardian.co.uk. R etrieved 22 September 2010. 27.Jump up ^ "Scribd Raises $13 Million To Support Mobile Moves, Product Expansi on". paidContent.org. 19 Jan 2011. Retrieved 22 November 2012. 28.Jump up ^ "iPaper: a Simple Way to View and Share Documents on the Web". Wire d.[dead link] 29.Jump up ^ "Scribd on your iPhone". 30.Jump up ^ "Global Storage Settings panel". Macromedia.com. Retrieved 2009-0201. 31.Jump up ^ "Scribd SAP Largest API Integration Press Release". Scribd. 2009-03 -10. Retrieved 22 September 2010. 32.Jump up ^ "HTML5 and The Future of Publishing". Web 2.0 Expo. Retrieved 201005-06. 33.Jump up ^ Erick Schonfeld (May 5, 2010). "Scribd CTO: We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5". Retrieved October 11, 2010. 34.Jump up ^ "Betting the House on HTML 5". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2010-07 -26. 35.Jump up ^ "YouTube for documents". techcrunch.com. 29 March 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 36.Jump up ^ "Mark Warner". scribd.com. 29 March 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 37.Jump up ^ "Scribd". CrunchBase. Retrieved 2010-04-15. 38.Jump up ^ Motoko Rich (2009-05-11). "Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-05-11. 39.Jump up ^ Johnson, Bobbie (2009-09-21). "Book sharing site Scribd rejects cla ims of copyright infringement". The Guardian (London). 40.Jump up ^ Greg Sandoval (September 19, 2009). "Jammie Thomas lawyers file sui t against Scribd". Retrieved October 11, 2010. 41.Jump up ^ Motoko Rich (2009-09-19). "Jammie Thomas lawyers file suit against Scribd". CNET News.com. Retrieved 2009-09-19. 42.Jump up ^ "Class Action Copyright Suit Filed Against Scribd... By Jammie Thom as' Lawyers?". TechDirt. 2009-09-21. Retrieved 2009-09-21. 43.Jump up ^ "Lawsuit Saying Scribd's Copyright-Protection Filters Infringe On C

opyrights Has Been Dumped". Scribd. TechDirt. 19 July 2010. Retrieved 24 Septemb er 2010. 44.Jump up ^ Kravets, David (2010-07-19). "Lawsuit Dropped; Claimed That Copyrig ht-Filtering Violates Copyright". Wired. Retrieved 2013-02-21. 45.Jump up ^ "Scribd looks like a winner". Scribd. TechCrunch. 29 March 2009. Re trieved 1 January 2010. 46.Jump up ^ http://www.stevensaylor.com/ArchivePage.html. Accessed on 8 January 2013. 47.Jump up ^ Stone, Brad (29 March 2009). "passwords of comcast customers expose d". nytimes.com. Retrieved 1 January 2010. 48.Jump up ^ "Comcast passwords leaked onto the web". cnet.com. 29 March 2009. R etrieved 1 January 2010. 49.Jump up ^ "Comcast passwords exposed". hothardware.com. 29 March 2009. Retrie ved 1 January 2010. 50.Jump up ^ Gannes, Liz. "Leaked Facebook Movie Script Paints Zuckerberg as Vin dictive and Naive". Gigaom. 51.Jump up ^ Jason (February 26, 2009). "Info, FAQs, and Forums/FAQ: Writing, Up loading and Managing Documents". Retrieved October 11, 2010. External links[edit source] Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Scribd Official website Video: 'YouTube' for writers

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