To better understand the listening habits of book lovers, reading subscription service Scribd took a deep dive into the world of audiobooks.

With all the things you can splurge on during the summer, one thing that’s a no-brainer to fit in the budget: Scribd, the membership for readers.

Scribd really is the best choice for most people — it has a decently sized library of books, access to other documents, and a well-designed and easy-to-use app.

Hunting for a good read? It'll be easy to find one on Scribd, a Netflix-meets-bookstore subscription-based app.

Bring your library card into the digital age with Scribd, an online collection of more than 1 million books, audiobooks, comics and music scores available for unlimited reading.

Scribd is adding three categories to its e-book subscription service: sheet music; science, technical and medical titles; and Sesame Street titles. Through an agreement with music publisher Hal Leonard, Scribd will add more than 2,600 selections of sheet

Scribd continues to expand its selection — it’s adding sheet music for the first time, and also announcing deals to bring in Sesame Street children’s books and grow its selection of textbooks. Scribd already offers unlimited access to a library of e-books

Not long after Trip Adler started Scribd in 2007 his then eight employees became embroiled in a debate about what path the company should follow. Watching, Adler, then a recent graduate, thought: Why doesn’t someone take control of this situation?

Subscribe to Scribd for $8.99 a month and get unlimited access to over 1 million books, audiobooks, and comics. You can try Scribd with a 14-day free trial. A few partners include Penguin Random House, Marvel, and more.

Former Barnes & Noble v-p of digital content Theresa Horner is joining Scribd as v-p of strategy and new content verticals. Horner worked for B&N from 2008 until 2014, when she left the company amid a wave of layoffs in its Nook e-book division. Horner wa

Earlier this year, Macmillan established a partnership with Scribd. Initially, the publishing house agreed to allow subscribers to access more than 1,000 e-books. Today, the two companies have announced that an additional 1,300 Macmillan titles will be

Scribd, the world's largest unlimited e-book subscription service, handpicks the best read for you with intuitive algorithms, a dedicated team of editors and a library of more than 1 million titles — all for just $8.99 a month.

The subscription content platform Scribd adds more than 200 front-list ebooks to the catalog available to Australian readers, including best-selling titles from Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Harlequin Australia.

Do you have a great idea for company, but don’t know where to start? Advice can be one of the most useful tools for entrepreneurs, and today Forbes offered a chance to speak with someone who has been through the process and succeeded. We hosted one of our

Scribd has struck a deal with Penguin Random House to add over 9,000 of the publisher's audiobooks to its subscription book service. It's a big grab for Scribd that gives its subscribers access to audiobooks for some of the publisher's most popular titles

Subscription reading and listening service Scribd has expanded its audiobook selection. From today, you can listen to over 9,000 titles from Penguin Random House Audio.

E-book subscription service Scribd (you know, the Netflix for e-books) just beefed up its audiobook library. Today, they announced a partnership Penguin Random House Audio, which will expand their audiobook collection by 9,000 titles (bringing the service

As bookworms, we're all too familiar with having to bring less clothes on vacation because we’ve already hit the weight limit with half a dozen novels in our suitcase—not to mention the day-today struggle of forgoing small purses for the sake of having a

On Tuesday morning, Scribd—a Netflix-esque subscription service for digital books—announced that it would be adding a new category to its offerings: comic books.

If you've moved from single comic issues to reading them digitally, you know it can still be kind of pricy. But the online ebook service Scribd has just announced it's added a massive comics library to its service, allowing users to read all the comics th

Get ready to get your geek on, because subscription reading service Scribd is expanding its library to include more than 10,000 comic books. The expansion will mark the first time such a large variety of top comic publishers such as Marvel, Boom! Studios

In case you didn't know about Scribd, it's basically the Netflix of books. You pay a flat fee of $9 a month, and in return you get to read an endless amount of titles — pretty good deal. Today the subscription company revealed that it will now include unl

WHO will be the Netflix/Spotify of comics? Several companies have been trying to offer all you can eat comcis buffets, but a lack of top content has been holding them back. But Scribd just made a major play announcing a $8.99 a month plan that allows you

For those who have wanted to get into comics but didn’t know where to start, Scribd has some good news for you: the launch of a brand new comics section that will give subscribers access to more than 10,000 releases from Marvel Entertainment, Archie Comic

It seems the long-awaited “Netflix for comics” has arrived. The book subscription service Scribd will add more than 10,000 comic books to its digital collection, from top publishers including Marvel, Archie, IDW/Top Shelf, Boom! Studios, Dynamite and V

Comic book fans, rejoice. Scribd, the popular document sharing service, introduced a comic books section on Tuesday with more than 10,000 titles to its growing e-book subscription service.

Scribd has reached agreements that will add more than 10,000 comics and graphic novels to its e-book subscription service, all for the same monthly fee of $8.99. Through the deal, Scribd is partnering with such comics publishers as Marvel (although not

In case getting unlimited access to an enormous library of e-books and audiobooks for $8.99 a month wasn’t enough for you, Scribd is announcing today that it’s expanding into comic books.

First, Scribd applied the Netflix model to books, offering unlimited access to an online library of popular titles for a flat monthly fee. Then it did the same for audio books. And now it’s moving into another all-important sector of the publishing world:

Scribd will expand its library to include comic books today. The ebook subscription service just announced it has acquired more than 10,000 comic books and graphic novels, bringing its total title count to the 1 million mark. Under Scribd's $8.99 per mont

It’s a good week for comic book fans. Yesterday, Marvel announced Spider-Man is joining its cinematic universe. Today, Scribd has revealed that it’s adding unlimited comic book reading to its monthly subscription service.

Scribd, one of the major firms competing to claim the title "Netflix for e-books," has closed on a round of $22 million in funding.

Scribd, which offers a Netflix-style subscription service for books and documents, has closed a $22 million Series D round led by Khosla Ventures with participation from existing backers Redpoint Ventures, CRV and Silicon Valley Bank.

Scribd, an e-book subscription service, has secured $22 million in financing led by Khosla Ventures and including new funds from existing investors. The new funding brings Scribd’s total financing to date to $48 million.

The ebook subscription market continues to heat up. Scribd confirmed Friday that it has raised $22 million in funding to double down on its ebook subscription service.

Scribd, a company offering unlimited access to half a million e-books for $8.99 a month, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in additional funding.

You'll never find yourself on a layover without something to read ever again! Think Netflix or Spotify -- but for books! That's right -- for just $8.99 a month, you'll have access to 500,000 ebooks and 50,000 audio books at your fingertips!

As 2014 closes, Scribd CEO Trip Adler and Oyster CEO Eric Stromberg can look back on a pretty good year. Both now offer access to more than 500,000 titles—including books from two of the Big Five, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins, as well as a growing n

It's no surprise that listening to music enhances workout performance. We've all been there—about ready to give up when our power ballad sounds to push us through that final rep or last mile. But for those runs when there doesn't seem to be enough ballads

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Today, Scribd is announcing that it’s adding more than 30,000 audiobooks to the service, at no additional charge. Standouts in the collection include the Hunger Games trilogy, The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, and Daring Greatly by Brené Brown.

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 e-books, readable on iPhones, iPads, Android devices,

Scribd doesn’t take kindly to being cribbed.In July, the San Francisco company woke up to find that Amazon.com AMZN +2.27% had imitated one of its core services, introducing an all-you-can-read book subscription service that rivaled the “Netflix for books

Scribd made its $8.99-per-month ebook subscription a better deal Thursday by adding 30,000 digital audiobooks to the package.

Ebook subscription service Scribd updated today to now offer over 30,000 audiobooks along with their collection of standard ebooks as part of their current $8.99 per month plan.

Scribd used to have a pretty compelling pitch. It's Netflix for e-books, charging members a $9 monthly fee for unlimited access to the service's roughly 500,000-book online library. It works on Android and iOS devices, as well as Kindle Fires. For anyone

Scribd is about to give Audible a serious run for its money. Today it's adding an audiobooks section to its ebooks subscription service, giving its customers access to more than 30,000 audiobooks as part of their existing $8.99 per month subscription. Tha

Little more than a year after launching its all-you-can-read ebook service, the San Francisco startup Scribd has announced that the service now offers more than 30,000 audiobooks, including titles from big-name publishing houses HarperCollins and Scholast

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Harlequin, the world's most famous English-language romance fiction publisher, is joining the "Netflixication" of e-books. For the next year, Scribd will be the exclusive subscription partner for Harlequin and its various imprints.

Harlequin has reached an agreement with Scribd to make 15,000 of its backlist titles available, exclusively for a year, through the e-book subscription service.

The market for ebook services is starting to get more exciting as major book publishers start accepting the idea that consumers want a “Netflix for books” to satisfy their voracious reading habits.

As more startups compete in the e-book arena, Scribd is carving out a niche for itself, Post contributor Julie Earle Levine reports.

You may not know it, but you're in love. In fact, you're in love with love. According to intel released by e-book subscription service Scribd, the most popular genre of digital books in 2014 was romance, you big saps.

E-bookstores have many advantages over their physical counterparts, but the pleasures of idle browsing has never been one of them. At a time when none of the nascent e-book subscription services is lacking many of the most prominent titles that readers ma

Stepping up competition in the e-book subscription category, Scribd is launching a new browsing feature, going live today, that claims to combine the best of human and algorithmic book recommendation.

All-you-can-read subscription ebook service Scribd has received an overhaul with new smart discovery features that should help you browse for new content to read. The new look launches today on the Web and is coming to the firm’s mobile apps in the next f

Scribd wants to be to bibliophiles what Netflix is to couch potatoes. The ebook subscription service is rolling out a new browsing experience, which uses human curation and an algorithm-driven recommendation engine to facilitate user discovery.

Scribd is rolling out a revamped version of its unlimited digital book service today. Ebook subscription services are getting more popular lately, partly because Amazon finally starting to offer one of its own, Kindle Unlimited, last month

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Two startups are trying to do for e-books what Netflix does for movies. Oyster and Scribd let you read as many books as you want for a monthly price — $10 for Oyster and $9 for Scribd.

In the beginning, Scribd made it easy for anyone to publish and share written work. Now the startup is finding its niche.

Scribd began as site to simply host and share documents. Essays, poems, novels—whatever writers needed to share, Scribd offered a home for their words. And now they've grown into a fully fledged book subscription service—a Netflix for ebooks, you might sa

We'll be the first one to tell you that not every book is made to be a beach read, even if it hits bookshelves (and Kindles) post-Memorial Day. For instance, if no one has told you yet: The Fault in Our Stars is not a toes-in-the-sand kind of book. (More

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As a great educational theorist once observed, when released each summer from the rigorous oversight of academic professionals, children often abandon such fundamentals as the use of writing implements and reading of scholarly tomes.

Scribd Co-Founder Trip Adler discusses the subscription app to access 40 million books and documents with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “In The Loop.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Following last week's announcement that Simon & Schuster is making their backlist available to Scribd subscribers, at BEA Scribd announced an agreement with the Perseus Books Group as well.

Once a non-starter among publishers, authors and agents, all-you-can-read ebook subscription services have arrived.

Simon & Schuster has agreed to make available more than 10,000 older titles to nascent e-book subscription businesses Oyster and Scribd, making it the second major book publisher to test consumer interest in Netflix-like reading services.

Another big-five publisher is seeing the value of ebook subscription models: Simon & Schuster is making its entire backlist of about 10,000 titles available on Scribd and Oyster. Conveniently, S&S author Stephen King is the #1 most-searched author on both

Two major services hoping to become 'Netflix for e-books' got a big boost Wednesday: Simon & Schuster has made its backlist available to both Oyster and Scribd.

Simon & Schuster has signed on to make its books available on Scribd and Oyster, two separate services that have been described as the Netflix of books.

Simon & Schuster has reached an agreement with subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd to make 10,000 of its backlist e-books available to subscribers. This is S&S’s first time offering its titles via e-book subscription services.

When two startups, called Oyster and Scribd, launched platforms last Fall, they were each hailed as “Netflix for books.” Like Netflix or Spotify, their platforms offer users unlimited consumption of digital media, in this case, books, for a monthly fee.

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 30, 2014 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 300,000+ e-books ranging from contemporary bestsellers to beloved classics, today announced its expansion into educational reading with an unprecedented partnership with Wiley

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2014 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 300,000+ e-books ranging from contemporary bestsellers to beloved classics, today launched its new travel category by announcing an unprecedented partnership with Lonely Plane

Subscription e-book startup Scribd is announcing a deal with famed travel publisher Lonely Planet.

According to Scribd, an expansive e-book library, the literary selections above are the most widely read in those five locales. Wondering about your state? See the full list below.

You've finally finished the book your co-worker recommended, so what to read next? If it is 5 a.m., chances are that you're reaching for a romance novel—especially if you're in Texas or Georgia. By early morning, thrillers might start to look more appe

SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 2014 — Scribd, a book subscription service featuring 100,000+ books including contemporary bestsellers and beloved classics, is celebrating three million mobile downloads with the launch of an app for Kindle Fire, based on its

Scribd has thrown down a gauntlet against the reigning ebook champion Amazon with the release of an app for enjoying its subscription ebook service on Amazon’s own Kindle Fire tablet.

Scribd, hailed as the YouTube of documents and now trying to become the Netflix of digital books, has launched a Kindle Fire app.

The recently launched Scribd subscription e-book service is adding an app for the Kindle Fire tablet as well as providing updates to its iOS and Android apps. The service, which provides users access to more than 100,000 titles for $8.99 a month, reports

An avid surfer and sometime street-busking saxophonist with a Harvard degree in biophysics, Adler is a man of many interests.

Smashwords has also just signed a distribution deal with Scribd, the content upload and sharing site.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2013 —Scribd, an e-book subscription service featuring 100,000+ titles including thousands of bestsellers and new releases, today announced it has signed a deal with Smashwords , the world’s largest distributor of independen

Scribd offers 1,000 titles in its Cookbooks & Food category, a cornucopia of culinary content that’s bound to inspire anyone with an interest in gastronomy.

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Scribd is offering gift cards for its eBook subscription service this holiday season.

As competitors in the e-book subscription market, Scribd and Oyster like to emphasize their differences. Yet the two share a common talking point: They both drop the name HarperCollins.

SAN FRANCISCO, November 26, 2013 — Scribd, an eBook subscription service featuring +100,000 books, including bestselling and new release titles, today announced its new gift subscriptions, which are accompanied by e-Cards with book cover art inspired by

ONE DAY, HUNCHING in front of a computer screen or squinting at a smartphone to read anything longer than a tweet will seem barbaric. To engage with text thoughtfully and comfortably, e-readers and tablets are still the most evolved gadgets, especially wh

Scribd, which one month ago launched a subscription plan to allow users to download an unlimited number of books for $8.99 per month, has hit a big milestone: 1 million books bookmarked by users.

As an undergraduate at Harvard, John R. "Trip" Adler III explored medicine, biophysics and investment banking before realizing what he really wanted to do: be an entrepreneur.

In a recent interview with The New York Times Sunday Book Review, author Donna Tartt said “I’ve always got a dozen books going, which is why my suitcases are always so heavy.”

Many publishing industry observers don’t think that Oyster or Scribd or any other “Netflix or Spotify for ebooks” will work in the consumer marketplace. Why?

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books.

News Corp's (NWS, NWSA) HarperCollins Publishers has agreed to make available the majority of its U.S. backlist titles to a books subscription service operated by Scribd Inc., a Web-based service.

For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content: movies, TV shows, music, news, video games. Could that same model soon become popular in the world of publishing?

SAN FRANCISCO, October 1, 2013 — Scribd,the world’s largest global, multi-platform digital library of books and other written works, today launched a book subscription service available for a flat-rate plan of $8.99 per month.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online document-sharing site Scribd is taking a page from Netflix's success story as it sets out to create the world's largest subscription service for digital books.

Scribd, Inc. the world’s largest social reading and publishing company, today announced the roll-out of HTML5 code for all websites currently displaying Scribd content in Flash.

CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports on tomorrow's tech trendsetters, including Scribd, an online site designed for readers and writers.

SAN FRANCISCO – January 18, 2011 Scribd, Inc. today announced that it has closed $13 million in Series C financing led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital, with re-investment from all previous investors...

SAN FRANCISCO – August 10, 2009 – Scribd, the world’s largest social publishing company, today announced the launch of redesigned, more interactive pages on Scribd.com.

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Scribd Goes Mobile, Simplifies Reading-On-The-Go "Send to Device" Feature and Scribd Open Content Platform Give ConsumersOne-Click Access to Millions of Unique Written Works on Billions of Devices

Somewhere between Google Books, Amazon, and the blogosphere lies Scribd, a community of "millions of readers, millions of documents." Anyone can upload, comment, tag, vote up and down, and share any piece of text.

SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2009 – Scribd, Inc., the world’s largest social publishing website, today announced that it has partnered with major publishers to bring books and other professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers.

The biggest surprise fro me in the social media rankings that I posted earlier today was the appearance of document sharing service Scribd in the top 20.