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I must say I haven't hated something with such great passion as I hate scribd and similar services. The only reason why I still end up on scribd.com is because
by geeko 17y ago
I must say I haven't hated something with such great passion as I hate scribd and similar services. The only reason why I still end up on scribd.com is because some idiotic friend is not able to link the direct source for the document in question.
I absolutely don't get it how such a service adds value to the web. It's great for scribd to have 60 million readers. I am one of them. Why? Because I'm freaking forced to sign up to download a pdf.
"A social publishing company that aims to liberate the written word by democratizing the publishing process for everyday people". - Sounds great. Could you please provide the link?
- jgrahamc 17y agoI hear you brother, I hear you. It's odd how some things you can just ignore (MySpace in my case) without any bad feeling, but other things (scribd, for example) are a royal pain in the ass. I hate scribd because it's not a PDF. I'm still not sure what was wrong with PDFs in the first place, but replacing them with an in browser, Flash based thing is insane. Oh, and as for selling ebooks on the web. What's wrong with Lulu? That's where I can sell a PDF of my GNU Make book and offer people the option of buying a printed copy. BTW Can someone post a PDF of this?
- zandorg 17y agoLulu can be very expensive. XLibris is a good alternative which is quite cheap in bulk.
- danielh 17y agoThe title of the talk is "How to Come up with Good Ideas for Startups" not "How to add value to the web". The two are not necessarily connected.