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 ...

Avid audiobook nerds tired of dealing with Audible’s nonsense or long library queues now have a new way to get a steady stream of the good stuff. Scribd just announced it will be reinstating an ...

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.

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, 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has announced that it is pivoting away from the unlimited subscription model and moving to a credit-based system for their Everand reading platform in the United States. International expansion ...

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, ...

Responding to a blog post on Writer Beware, the writer’s support website, Scribd v-p of content acquisition Andrew Weinstein both acknowledged the on-going problem of pirated content on Scribd while ...

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 ...