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Huh, 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.
by maaaats 12y ago
Huh, 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.