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Scribd is the world's largest digital library, where readers can discover books and written works of all kinds on the Web or any mobile device and publishers and authors can find a voracious audience for their work. Launched in March of 2007 and based in San Francisco California, more than 40 million books and documents have been contributed to Scribd by the community. Scribd content reaches an audience of 80 million people around the world every month.
On Scribd, readers can find everything from up-and-coming books by new authors, to court filings that have been making the news, to academic papers from scholars around the world. With a Scribd subscription, readers can have unlimited access to best-selling books and premium documents, and read them on any iOS and Android smart phone, tablet or desktop.

The world's largest library

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Bigger than the Library of Congress

Scribd has more than 40 million free books and documents contributed by users, and nearly doubles in size every year.

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Unlimited books with Scribd Premium

For a low monthly fee of $8.99, readers can have unlimited access to all the popular content on Scribd, which includes best-selling books and premium documents.

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Great discovery on any device

Find something to read through personalized recommendations, searching Scribd, or your social feed, and then read on your iPad, iPhone or Android device.

A new innovative publishing platform

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Simple Publishing

Scribd's conversion technology allows anyone to convert any book or document from virtually any format into a beautiful webpage or mobile reading experience.

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Massive Distribution

Writers can increase their readership by reaching Scribd's 80 million monthly readers. Scribd will maximize distribution of publisher's content through search engines and the social web.

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Powerful Monetization

Authors and publishers can make their content free on Scribd, or generate a new source of revenue through Scribd's new subscription service.

Awards and nominations

  • Top 10 most innovative companies by Fast Company
  • Trip Adler was named Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by BusinessWeek
  • Scribd was a Best Social Media Finalist for San Francisco Business Times’ 2010 Tech and Innovation Entrepreneur Awards
  • The World Economic Forum announced the company as a Technology Pioneer for 2011
  • Time Magazine named Scribd one of the “10 Start-Ups that Will Change Your Life”
80 MILLION
MONTHLY READERS
40 MILLION
BOOKS & DOCUMENT UPLOADS
100+
COUNTRIES USE SCRIBD
420 BILLION
WRITTEN WORDS