On paper, Scribd shouldn’t work in 2026. It’s a paid subscription for a massive grab bag of e‑books, PDFs, and documents, at a time when people are used to pulling answers, excerpts, or explanations ...

Avid audiobook nerds tired of dealing with Audible’s nonsense or long library queues now have a new way to get a steady stream of the good stuff. Scribd just announced it will be reinstating an ...

Before Scribd became a multi-million-document storehouse, Trip Adler was a Harvard grad casting about for a business idea–here’s how he found it. The official history for Scribd, a social publishing ...

Scribd’s announcement last week that it has passed the one-million subscriber mark is just one indication that the online subscription service has cemented itself as a major player in the distribution ...

Scribd, the digital subscription reading and listening platform, launched in 2007 and has since attracted 1.9 million subscribers and more than 200 million unique monthly visitors from 190 countries, ...

Scribd co-founders Jared Friedman (left) and Trip Adler (right) decided to pivot the business last year. “We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model,” Adler says.

Two years after shifting away from its unlimited subscription model in favor of monthly credits, Scribd has announced that its subscribers will once again be able to access the entirety of its vast ...

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

Thirteen months ago, San Francisco startup Scribd launched a service which aims to do for books what Netflix does for movies and TV shows. It offers a large-but-not-utterly-comprehensive collection of ...

Digital reading subscription service Scribd just announced a new form of content, "Snapshots," which condenses books on their reading service down into a shorter format designed to deliver a teaser of ...