Scribd
Scribd Inc. /ˈskrɪbd/ is an American e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.
| Type of business | Private |
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| Available in | English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish |
| Founded | March 2007 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Founder(s) | Trip Adler Jared Friedman Tikhon Bernstam |
| 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 |
| Subsidiaries | SlideShare |
| URL | www |
The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. 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 unlimited 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.
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books".