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WATCH: The Netflix Of Reading?

Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Scribd, Float, Book Publishing, Video, Books News, Apple, Trip Adler, iPhone Apps, Ereader, Ebooks, Books News

eReading just got a whole lot easier. Today, the popular document-sharing website Scribd released their first iPhone application to service all of you...

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Video: Scribd Launches "Float," New Reading App for the Web and iPad

Andy Plesser | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Scribd, Beet.TV, Document Sharing, Jared Friedman, Scribd Reader, Float, Scribd Books, Scribd Float, Scribd Ereader, Float Reader Free, Float Reader, Technology News

Last week, we interviewed CTO and co-founder Jared Friedman about Float. We interviewed him in Scribd's offices via Skype Video.

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Gotcha: The Top 8 Sites People Plagiarize

Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Scribd, Yahoo! Answers, Coursehero, Medlibrary, Slideshare, Slidepollajax, Plagiarism, answers.com, Cheating, Oppapers, Wikpedia, College News

Turnitin.com, a site dedicated to catching plagiarists, conducted a study and found that when students copy from the web, they generally lift blocks o...

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Best Social Reading SItes: What Have You Been Spotted Reading In Private? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Scribd, Shelfari, Copia, Social Reading Sites, Library Thing, Book Lamp, Slidepollajax, Readfeeder, Book Glutton, Books News

Are social reading sites changing the way we think about reading? Is it the new equivalent to reading in public? People can now start book groups with...

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Scribd Editor's Pick: Eat Pray Drive by Helen Winslow Black

Tammy H. Nam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Scribd, Independent Writers, Memoirs, Women Writers, Essays, Eat Pray Drive, Scribd Editor's Pick, Helen Winslow Black, Video, Books News

I'm surprised Black hasn't been picked up by a major publisher already, not just because she's an incredibly talented writer, which she is, but because her stories are so universally appealing and... well... human.

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Scribd.com Goes To The Dark Side

evilreads | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book News, Ereaders, Paywalls, Scribd, Kindle, Books Online, E-Books, E-Readers, Ebook, Amazon Kindle, E-Book, scribd.com, Books News

Their "archive" process (scheme) works like this: after an unspecified "period of time," all free, publicly-viewable documents posted to Scribd.com ar...

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Can Technology FIX Publishing?

GigaOM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Nook, Ereaders, Book News, Books, Barnes and Noble, E-Books, html5, Amazon Kindle, Ipad, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple Ipad, Kindle, E-Reader, Ebook, Vook, E-Book, Smashwords, Ebooks, Books News

While paper books are still the norm, e-books now account for up to 20 percent of book sales in categories like romance and sci-fi. The shift in publi...

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An Internet Pirate Stole My Memoir

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edith Wharton, Scribd, Book News, Internet, New Yorker, Writing, Books, Plagiarism, Memoir, Creative Writing, Books News

Scribd advertises itself as a social publishing web site where you can upload your writings and documents instantly and discover unique content. They don't add that you can also steal people's books, but you sure can.

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Can Electronic Reading Devices Bring The Book To Life?

Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham and David Sarno | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Book Publishing, Books, Bookstores, Ipad, Amazon, Authors, Iphone, textnovel.com, Textbooks, Ebook Reader, Vook, Publishers, Ebooks, Ereaders, Books News

More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing pr...

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Does Free Sell?

David Carnoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Knife Music, Neil Gaiman, Free Books, Scribd, Books, Paulo Coelho, Free eBooks, Self-Publishing, Cory Doctorow, Books News

I recently re-issued the free app as a lengthy excerpt and posted 150 pages of "Knife Music" on Scribd.com. Since then some folks have asked me whether giving away the whole book or these extended free samples has helped sell books.

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A Book Club of Billions: 52 Ways to Die in a Cave and Other Lessons in Social Media Marketing

Tammy H. Nam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Social Media, Book Marketing, Twitter, Chelsea Green, Random House, Facebook, Social Media Marketing, Books, Book Publisihing, Blind Descent, Digg, New Media, Reading, Books News

Several months ago, one of the web measurement companies released a report that showed that Facebook had surpassed Google as the number one driver of traffic to major news and entertainment portals like Yahoo and MSN (13% vs. 7%).

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Author Posts Vampire Novel Online, Gets Awesome Book Deal

io9 | Charlie Jane Anders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Tor, Book Publishing, Books, Vampire Novels, Young Adult Novels, Scribd, Marta Acosta, Online Publishing, Reading, Books News

Can posting your unpublished novels online for free still lead to a nice book deal, now that the web is saturated with free fiction? It worked for aut...

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Scribd Launches Print-On-Demand Options

GalleyCat | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magcloud, Blurb, Scribd, Books, Print-on-Demand, Pod, Self-Publishing, Mimeo, Books News

The online reading site Scribd (sometimes dubbed the YouTube for print) now offers writers a cutting edge new format for their Scribd writings: print ...

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Publish Your Own Book On Apple's iBooks

Macworld | Dan Moren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Authors, Ereaders, Book Publishing, Apple, Ibooks, Kindle, Vampires, Self-Publishing, Lulu, Smashwords, Ebooks, Books News

A huge number of people think they might write a book some day--back in 2002, a survey pegged it at 81 percent of Americans. But what happens after yo...

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Ever Wonder How Authors Use The Internet To Get Published?

SF Gate | Regan McMahon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Internet, Book Publishing, Random House, Manuscript, Literary Agent, Stanford University, Print on Demand, Literary Prizes, Ebooks, Amazon, Self Publish, Books News

In the old days - which, in this case, you might define as "two years ago" - getting your book published would entail finding an agent, sending it off...

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Scribd Editor's Pick: Mother's Little Angels (Excerpt)

Tammy H. Nam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Authors, Social Media, Writing, Richard Humphries, Autobiography, Self-Publishing, Pancreatic Cancer, Editor's Pick, Art Dealer, San Quentin, Books News

An art dealer and father of four, Richard HUmphries also happens to be a former inmate of San Quentin. What makes his story even more compelling is that he has late-stage pancreatic cancer.

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DocStoc Launches DocStore, Marketplace For Professional Documents

TechCrunch | Leena Rao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jason Nazar, Docstoc, Docstore, Scribd, Free Documents for Entrepreneurs, Docstor Launch, Technology News

Today, DocStoc is officially opening up its premium content channel, called the DocStore, addressing a lightly different sector, with a focus on selli...

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Scribd Editor's Pick: 'The Brave Monkey Pirate'

Tammy H. Nam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hayes Roberts, Book Publishing, Scribd Editor's Pick, Scribd, The Brave Monkey Pirate, Books, Children's Books, Digital Books, Self-Publishing, Books News

We're starting a regular feature on HuffPost that we're calling Scribd Editor's Pick, which will introduce you to some of the rising talent found on our site. I hope you find them as wonderful as we do!

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eBook-Only Publishers Cropping Up Everywhere

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harlequin, Samhain, Or Books, Kindle, Book Publishing, Romance, Lulu, Ereaders, Publishing, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Going Rouge, Carina Press, Iuniverse, Scribd, Atlantic Bridge, eBook Publishing, Publishers, Ebooks, Books, Romance Novels, Self-Publishing, Nook, Uncial, Smashwords, Books News

A recent article from Publishers Weekly announced the launch of Carina Press, a new imprint of romance publisher Harlequin that will exclusively publi...

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Scribd Book Sharing: Copyright Infringement?

guardian.co.uk | Bobbie Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Copyright Infringement, Scribd Lawsuit, Illegal Sharing, Books, E-Books, E-Book, Books News

Social publishing website Scribd has been hit with a lawsuit which claims that it profits by encouraging internet users to illegally share copyrighted...

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Why I'm Releasing My Novel on Twitter

Matt Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Matthew Stewart, Tweet, Author, France, Writer, Twitter, Read, Bastille Day, Amazon, Novel, Social Media, Tech, Publishing, Release, Released, Kindle, Thefrenchrev, Publish, Ebook, Technology, Book, San Francisco, Matt Stewart, Media News

Tweeting my novel provides the ultimate in easy sampling and information triage before purchase, the equivalent of watching a clip of a TV show before deciding to order the season on Netflix.

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Y Combinator's Paul Graham Wants To Mass Produce Start-ups

Inc. Article | By: Max Chafkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Xobni, Sam Altman, Justintv, Max Chafkin, Loopt, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Viaweb, Venture Capital, Inc. Magazine, Start-Up Guru, Redditt, Business News

Paul Graham's company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so ear...

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The Shelf Talker: Ramen Noodles, Harold Bloom, and Poisonous Plants.

Kevin Smokler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Literature, Writing, Books, Fiction, Andyraskin, Journals, Elizabeth Berg, Media News

Home Safe, is by Helen Ames who is recently widowed and having a tough time with her daughter, her missing retirement money and herself. It doesn't scream originality to us.

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