Scribd on the front page of BusinessWeek.com

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by ed • 17 years ago

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anuraggoel• 17 years ago

On WSJ.com too: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124475525754407679.html#mod=...

It looks like Scribd is building a reader for the iPhone, and this app will also allow searching within Simon & Shuster pbooks. This is interesting because it sounds similar to what you can do with Google Books, though on a much smaller scale.

Also from the WSJ article, Scribd's PDFs can be read on the Sony Reader but not on the Kindle DX - which means they've probably adopted Adobe's DRM. Are we going to see DRM-free paid content from Scribd at some point?

earl• 17 years ago

FYI: the person uploading a document for sale is allowed to choose from {website only, website + pdf download, website + adobe drm download}.

jasonbentley• 17 years ago

There's actually tons of DRM-free paid content on Scribd. DRM is just an option.

aswanson• 17 years ago

Another YC hit that I would never have expected to explode like this (along with JTV). Good thing I am not an angel/VC. So hard to discern what is going to take off.

kyro• 17 years ago

Anything mildly original that lets people take their narcissism to new heights will be successful. Speaking to justin.tv.

Corrado• 17 years ago

I really, really don't like Scribd. I'm sorry, but PDFs work much, much better in Preview than in some Flash app in my browser. In fact, does anyone know how to block Scribd results in Google?

w1ntermute• 17 years ago

Same here, I hate their "iPaper" Flash applet as well. If you're using Firefox, you can remove Google search results by URL with the CustomizeGoogle extension (http://www.customizegoogle.com/). Go to the "Filter" section of its configuration to do so.

It also has many other useful Google tweaks, like removal of text ads and click tracking.

Scribd on the front page of BusinessWeek.com

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