Scribd

About

Scribd is a subscription media company that has created an unlimited reading subscription that provides access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, and more. The company was founded by Jared Friedman, John Adler, and Tikhon Bernstam in 2007 in San Francisco, California, United States.

Product

The company offers its services to users with Android and iOS tablets, including smartphones, the Kindle Fire, and laptops. The company works with major publishers, authors, and original content creators of e-books, magazines, documents, and other mediums of information. They offer their products to their community of one million subscribers in over 190 countries.Subscribers can access an initial free trial for 30 days and then sign up to use the books and media for $9.99 per month after that.

Some of the publishing partners that Scribd works with includes Simon & Schuster, Wiley, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Planeta de Libros, Lonely Planet, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Fortune, People, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, TIME, Bloomsbury, Popular Science, Fast Company, and more.

Timeline

August 11, 2020

Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn

Scribd will take over the operations of SlideShare on September 24, according to LinkedIn.

May 20, 2020

Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more.

January 18, 2011

Scribd raises a $13,000,000 series C round from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and SVB Capital.

December 19, 2008

Scribd raises a $9,000,000 series B round from Charles River Ventures and Redpoint Ventures.

June 1, 2007

Scribd raises a $3,710,000 series A round from David Sacks, Jeffrey Jordan, Marc Andreessen and Redpoint Ventures.

January 1, 2007

Scribd raises a $40,000 seed round.

June 1, 2006

Scribd raises a $12,000 seed round from Y Combinator.

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Angel Cravalho

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Anuj Nijhawan

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Augie Hill

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Baris Yaman

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Barry Kwok

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Bill Tai

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Bill Umoff

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Chetana Deorah

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Chris Agerton

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Chris Polis

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Courtney Greene

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Craig Sherman

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David Feldman

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David Halloran

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David Sacks

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David Stainton

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Dmytro Ilchenko

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Dorris O'Brien

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Edward Kinsey

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Elizabeth Dielentheis

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27 inexpensive but thoughtful Mother's Day gifts under $25

Connie Chen

May 4, 2021

Business Insider

We know that finding affordable Mother's Day gifts that don't look and feel cheap can be tough, so we rounded up a great selection all under $25.

Libby app review: Read every book on your wishlist for free

Mara Leighton

May 3, 2021

Business Insider

Libby, a free library app, lets you borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your local library and download them onto your Kindle or phone.

51 Mother's Day gifts under $50 that are still thoughtful and personal

Mara Leighton

April 16, 2021

Business Insider

Here are 51 of the best Mother's day gifts under $50 that prove you don't have to break the bank to find thoughtful gifts for mom.

The top 30 bestselling audiobooks on Audible right now, from Obama's memoir to the "Bridgerton" series

Mara Leighton

March 2, 2021

Business Insider

We rounded up the most popular audiobooks on Audible right now, from celebrity memoirs and self-help books to romance novels and thrillers.

The best audiobook platforms, including Audible, Scribd, and Libby - Business Insider

Mara Leighton

January 13, 2021

Business Insider

Audiobooks help me stay entertained in quarantine while also making boring tasks (like walking or cleaning) fun. Here are the best apps I've used.

LinkedIn sells SlideShare to digital library Scribd for undisclosed sum

IANS

August 12, 2020

@bsindia

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has announced to sell SlideShare, the hosting platform for presentations and other professional content to US-based e-book and audiobook subscription service Scribd

Daily Crunch: Android phones become earthquake detectors

Anthony Ha

August 11, 2020

TechCrunch

Google is using accelerometers in an interesting new way, Twitter allows everyone to limit tweet replies and Mozilla announces major layoffs. This is your Daily Crunch for August 11, 2020. The big story: Android phones become earthquake detectors Google said that smartphone accelerometers are sensitive enough to detect P-waves, which are the first waves to [...]

Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn

Anthony Ha

August 11, 2020

TechCrunch

SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. According to LinkedIn, Scribd will take over operation of the SlideShare business on September 24. Scribd CEO Trip Adler argued that the companies have very similar roots, both launching in 2006/2007 with stories on TechCrunch, and both of [...]

Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more

Anthony Ha

May 20, 2020

TechCrunch

E-book and audiobook subscrition service Scribd has been actively embracing and experimenting with bundling over the past couple years, creating joint offers with The New York Times and with Spotify and Hulu. Today it announced a slightly different take on the idea with Scribd Perks. These perks gives Scribd's paying subscribers (the service costs $8.99 per [...]

Scribd raises $58M for subscription e-books and audiobooks

Anthony Ha

November 25, 2019

TechCrunch

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 offers access to a library of e-books, audiobooks, newspapers and magazines for $8.99 per month. (Access is unlimited for most subscribers, but [...]

Scribd introduces bite-sized nonfiction previews called Snapshots

Anthony Ha

June 26, 2019

TechCrunch

Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot -- a distillation of a nonfiction book's key points, which can be read or listened to in 15 minutes or less. In fact, although it's only announcing Snapshots today, Scribd says it's already created around 500 of them, [...]

Scribd kicks off its original content initiative with a book about Robert Mueller

Anthony Ha

April 3, 2019

TechCrunch

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 Adler revealed earlier this year that the subscription e-book and audiobook s...

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