Type of business | Private |
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Available in | English, Spanish, Portuguese |
Founded | March 2007 |
Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
Key people |
Trip Adler (co-founder and CEO) Jared Friedman (co-founder and CTO) Tikhon Bernstam (co-founder and COO) |
Services | Social reading and publishing platform |
Website | Scribd.com |
Alexa rank | 388 (September 2016[update]) |
Current status | Active |
Scribd /ˈskrɪbd/ is a digital library and e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. In addition, Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures. Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. Subscribers can access three books a month from 1,000 publishers, including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.