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Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service
- maaaats 12y agoHuh, didn't know Scribd had changed focus to become an E-book service. My impression of Scribd has long been that it's a piracy-pdf site.
- ryanmickle 12y agoMight you have said the same thing about YouTube?
- lancewiggs 12y agoYouTube made it easier to upload and watch short videos. Much easier. Scribd is an automatic Close-Tab for me. A usability nightmare. I don't want to subscribe to Amazon's service, and have very little expectations for Scribd. I'm amazed that the investors doubled down on such a poor end user experience, but I guess they are seeing good paying customer growth. Paying customers growth will fade away unless the end user experience is fixed.
- jacquesm 12y ago> I'm amazed that the investors doubled down on such a poor end user experience Sunk cost fallacy.
- glesica 12y agoMy impression has always been that it was a service to make PDFs less useful.
- cerrelio 12y agoThe only thing I've seen Scribd used for is embedding legal filings on various news and e-rag sites. Getting into legitimate publishing distribution is going to be tough. Licensing content is a pain; and once the sweetheart deals expire, there go the profit margins.
- vishalzone2002 12y agoisnt oyster doing that as well?
- lleims 12y agoYup. And there's also 24symbols.com
- marcusgarvey 12y agoDoes anyone know of a subscription service for physical books? Becoming enchanted once again witb being able to turn an actual page. Looking for a Netflix of books
- delecti 12y agoI'm really not sure if you're serious, but have you considered a library?
- rabidonrails 12y ago^winning!
- marcusgarvey 12y agoThis is like asking me if I've considered going to a department store instead of using Amazon. Yes, I'm aware of that thing called a library. But I want the books to come to me and I want a wider selection than my local library might carry.
- delecti 12y agoYou can typically request books that they don't carry, which they can get for you.
- marcusgarvey 12y agoThat's a good point, thanks! Still, nothing would top getting the books to just show up in my mailbox....
- walterbell 12y agoLibraries offer e-books, https://www.overdrive.com/ https://www.overdrive.com/
- gstn 12y agoI think its called a library.
- languagehacker 12y agoIsn't Amazon kind of already eating their lunch on this one?
- notatoad 12y agoI haven't used amazon's service, but everything i've heard about it is complaints. it sounds like there's plenty of room for competition.
- tomhschmidt 12y agoPretty misleading to say "Any Device" when the service doesn't work with ebook readers, arguably the best devices for reading ebooks.
- Elrac 12y agoBecause of the horrible usability experience, I've felt nothing but unadulterated seething hatred for Scribd ever since the first time I was forced to use them. I hope this venture fails, catastrophically.
- sitkack 12y agoAnd they pretty much just "resell" infringing content. Scribd "cribd" as in stolen seems like a rung or two below quora and experts-exchange.