In the battle to become the "Netflix of digital books," Scribd is taking its app to Amazon Kindle Fire tablets while updating its iOS and Android apps. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...
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. I was skeptical ...
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. Whatever that hidden cap is, the new plan bumps Scribd ...
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 ...
It was just over a year ago that Scribd officially unveiled a Netflix-style subscription e-book service. As of today, subscribers will have access to 30,000 audiobooks, too. Co-founder and CEO Trip ...
Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Scribd has partnered with more than 10 comic book publishers, including Marvel, Archie, IDW, and Arcana. It’s the ...
The latest company making a bid to bring the subscription model to the book world is one that may already be familiar to TechCrunch readers — social publishing service Scribd. Scribd first launched in ...
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. The move shows that investors see real potential in e-book ...
Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity. The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.