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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 has raised $58 million in new funding led by growth firm Spectrum Equity. The company first launched as a document-sharing service in 2007 before creating an e-book subscription in 2013. It now ...

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 ...

Why own a few pieces of media when you can rent access to everything? That pitch defines Netflix, which evolved from an all-you-can-watch DVD service into the kingpin of streaming video. Music ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...