Scribd

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Scribd

Type

Private
San Francisco, California, United
Founded States
(March 2007)
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Trip Adler (CEO, co-founder),
Key people Jared Friedman (CTO, co-founder),
Tikhon Bernstam (COO, co-founder)
Social reading and publishing
Services
platform
Website
Scribd.com
Alexa rank
388 (September 2016)[1]
Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese
Current status Active
Scribd /skrbd/ is a digital library and e-book, audiobook, and comic book subscription service
that includes one million titles.[2][3][4][5] In addition, Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open
publishing platform.[6]
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San
Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles River
Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.[7] Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android
and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers.
Subscribers can access unlimited books from 1,000 publishers, including Bloomsbury,
Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book
Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.[8][9]
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books.