</tr> </table> <p><b>Scribd</b> (pronounced <span title="Representation in the International Ph onetic Alphabet (IPA)" class="IPA"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" href="/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="H elp:IPA for English">/ˈskrɪbd/</a></span>) is a document-sharing website that allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page usin g its iPaper format. Scribd was founded by <a href="/wiki/Trip_Adler" title="Tr title="Tri i p Adler">Trip Adler</a>, Tikhon Bernstam, and Jared Friedman in 2006.<sup id="ci te_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</ href="#cite_note-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span> span> </a></sup> Scribd's major competitors are <a href="/wiki/Docstoc" title="Docsto title="Docstoc c ">Docstoc</a>, edocr, <a href="/wiki/WePapers" title="WePapers">WePapers</a>, title="WePapers">WePapers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Issuu" title="Issuu">Issuu</a>.<sup title="Issuu">Issuu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-scribd_raises_9_mi id="cite_ref-scribd_raises_9_mi llion_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-scribd_raises_9_million-3" href="#cite_note-scribd_raises_9_million-3"><spa ><spa n>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <table id="toc" class="toc"> <tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">1 </span> <span class="toctext">History< class="toctext">History</span></a></li> /span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Awards.2Frecognition"><span class= "tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Awards/recognition</span></a></l class="toctext">Awards/recognition</span></a></li> i> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Timeline"><span class="tocnumber"> 3</span> <span class="toctext">Timelin class="toctext">Timeline</span></a></li> e</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Financials"><span class="tocnumber ">4</span> <span class="toctext">Financial class="toctext">Financials</span></a></li> s</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Technology"><span class="tocnumber ">5</span> <span class="toctext">Technolog class="toctext">Technology</span></a></li> y</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Reception"><span class="tocnumber" >6</span> <span class="toctext">Recept class="toctext">Reception</span></a></li> ion</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Criticism"><span class="tocnumber" >7</span> <span class="toctext">Critic class="toctext">Criticism</span></a></li> ism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Controversy"><span class="tocnumbe r">8</span> <span class="toctext">Controve class="toctext">Controversy</span></a></li> rsy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Supported_file_formats"><span clas s="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Supported file formats</span></a></ li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber" >10</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumbe r">11</span> <span class="toctext">Referen class="toctext">References</span></a></li> ces</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocn umber">12</span> <span class="toctext">Externa class="toctext">External l links</span></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mwheadline" id="History">History</span></h2> id="History">History</span></h2> <p>The idea for Scribd was originally inspired when <a href="/wiki/Trip_Adler" t itle="Trip Adler">Trip Adler</a> was at <a href="/wiki/Harvard" title="Harvard" class="mw-redirect">Harvard</a> class="mw-redirect">Ha rvard</a> and had a conversation with his father, <a href= "/wiki/John_R._Adler" title="John R. Adler">John R. Adler</a>, about the difficu lties of publishing academic papers. He teamed up with cofounders Jared Friedman and Tikhon Bernstam and they attended <a href="/wiki/Y_Combinator_(company)" ti tle="Y Combinator (company)">Y Combinator</a> in Cambridge in the summer of 2006
.<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space:now style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a rap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikip edia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from February 2012">citation needed</span>< /a></i>]</sup> Scribd was launched from a San Francisco apartment in March 2007 and quickly grew in traffic. In 2008, it ranked as one of the top 20 social medi a sites according to Comscore.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="referenc class="reference"><a e"><a href="#c ite_note-4"><span>[</span>4<span>]</span></a>< ite_note-4"><span>[</s pan>4<span>]</span></a></sup> /sup> In June 2009, Scribd launche d Scribd Store,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5 href="#cite_note-5"><sp "><sp an>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> an>[</span>5<span>]</s pan></a></sup> and shortly thereafter closed a deal with < a href="/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster" title="Simon & Schuster">Simon & Schus ter</a> to sell ebooks on Scribd.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href= "#cite_note-6"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></ "#cite_note-6"><span>[ </span>6<span>]</span></a></sup> a></sup> Over 150 publishers inclu ding <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a>, <a href ="/wiki/John_Wiley_%26 ="/wiki/John_Wiley_%26_Sons" _Sons" title="JohnPublishing" Wiley &class="mw-redirect">Workman< Sons">Wiley</a>, <a href="/ wiki/Workman_Publishing" wiki/Workman_Publishin g" title="Workman class="mw-redirect">Wor kman< /a>, <a href="/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt" href="/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt" title="Houghton Mifflin Harcourt" >Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pearson_PLC" href="/wiki/Pearson_PLC" title="Pearson PLC"> Pearson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Un href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" iversity_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University_Press href="/wiki/Stanford_University_Press " title="Stanford University Press">Stanford University Press</a> are now associ ated with Scribd. <a href="/wiki/ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> began p ublishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009.</p> <p>In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies with <i>The <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redirect" >New York Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chi cago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" title ="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a>, <a href="/wiki/TechCrunch" title ="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a> and <a href="/wiki/MediaBistro" title="MediaBistro" ="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a> class="mw-redirect">MediaBistro</a>. class="mw-redirect">Media Bistro</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span>[</span>7<span>]</sp href="#cite_note-7"><s pan>[</span>7<span>]</span></a></sup> an></a></sup> Over 100 media compa nies now use Scribd’s branded reader to embed source material into their stories.
In August 2010, news stories began to break and documents and books began to go viral on Scribd including the overturned <a href="/wiki/Prop_8" title="Prop 8" c lass="mw-redirect">Prop lass="mw-redirect">Pro p 8</a> and HP’s lawsuit against <a href="/wiki/Mark_Hurd" t itle="Mark Hurd">Mark Hurd</a>’s move to <a href="/wiki/Oracle_Cor href="/wiki/Oracle_Corporation" poration" title= "Oracle Corporation">Oracle Corporation</a>.</p> <p>Adler is currently the <a href="/wiki/CEO" title="CEO" class="mw-redirect">CE class="mw-redirect">CE O</a> of Scribd, where he is responsible for the product and strategic direction of the company. <a href="/wiki/BusinessWeek" title="BusinessWeek" class="mw-red irect">BusinessWeek</a> irect">BusinessWeek</a > named Adler one of the “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2010”. <sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span>[</ href="#cite_note-8"><span>[</span>8<sp span>8<sp an>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards/recognition">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline" id="Awards.2Frecognit id="Awards.2Frecognition">Awards/recognition< ion">Awards/recognition</span></h2> /span></h2> <p>In September 2009, <i><a href="/wiki/BusinessWeek" title="BusinessWeek" class ="mw-redirect">BusinessWeek</a></i> ="mw-redirect">Busines sWeek</a></i> named Scribd one the “World’s Most Intriguing St artups”.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span>[</ href="#cite_note-9"><span>[</spa spa n>9<span>]</span></a></sup> n>9<span>]</span></a>< /sup> In December 2009, <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="F orbes">Forbes</a></i> named Scribd one of its “10 Hot Startups”.<sup id="cite_ref-10 " class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span>[</span>10<span> href="#cite_note-10"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></ ]</span></a></ sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Fast_Company_(magazine)" title="Fast Company (magazine)"> Fast Company</a></i> named Scribd “One of its Top 10 Most Innovative Media Compani es” in February 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1 1"><span>[</span>11<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In May 2010, Scribd was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest <a href="/wiki/S an_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> Companies” by Lead411.<sup i d="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span>[</span>12<span href="#cite_note-12"><span>[</span>12<span> > ]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>On September 1, 2010, the <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World E conomic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> announced the company as a <a href="/wik i/World_Economic_Forum#Technology_Pioneers_Pro i/World_Economic_Forum #Technology_Pioneers_Programme" gramme" title="World Economic Foru m">Technology Pioneer</a> for 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a hr ef="#cite_note-13"><span>[</span>13<span>]</sp ef="#cite_note-13"><sp an>[</span>13<span>]</span></a></sup><sup an></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><sp href="#cite_note-14"><span>[</span>14<span>]</spa an>[</span>14<span>]</span></a></s n></a></s up> After the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award, <i><a href="/wiki/T ime_Magazine" title="Time Magazine" class="mw-redirect">Time Magazine</a></i> na med Scribd one of the “10 Start-Ups that Will Change Your Life”.<sup id="cite_ref-15 " class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>15<span> href="#cite_note-15"><span>[</span>15<span>]</span></a></ ]</span></a></ sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=3" title="Edit section: Timeline">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw -headline" id="Timeline">Timeline< id="Timeline">Timeline</span></h2> /span></h2> <p>In February 2010, Scribd unveiled its first mobile plans for e-readers and <a href="/wiki/Smartphone" title="Smartphone">smartphones</a>. title="Smartphone">smartphones</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-1 6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a>< href="#cite_note-16"><span>[</span>16<span>]</span></a>< /sup> In April 2010 Scribd launched a new feature called "Readcast",<sup id="cit e_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>] href="#cite_note-17"><span>[</span>17<span>]</spa </spa n></a></sup> which allows automatic sharing of documents on <a href="/wiki/Faceb ook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">T witter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span >[</span>18<span>]</span></a></sup> >[</span>18<span>]</sp an></a></sup> Also in April 2010, Scribd announced its int egration of Facebook social <a href="/wiki/Plug-in_(co href="/wiki/Plug-in_(computing)" mputing)" title="Plug-in ( computing)">plug-ins</a> computing)">plug-ins</ a> at the <a href="/wiki/Facebook_f8 href="/wiki/Facebook_f8" " title="Facebook f8" class="mw-redirect">Facebook class="mw-redirect">Fa cebook f8</a> Developer Conference.<sup id="cite_ref-19" c lass="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">< href="#cite_note-19"><span>[</span>19<span>]</ span>[</span>19<span>]</span></a></sup span></a></sup ></p> <p>Scribd rolled-out a re-design on September 13, 2010h</a>, to become, according to < f a href="/wiki/TechCrunch" title="TechCrunch">TechCrunc title="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a>, “the social network or reading”.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span> href="#cite_note-20"><span> [</span>20<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=4" title="Edit section: Financials">edit</a>]</span> <span class=" mw-headline" id="Financials">Financial id="Financials">Financials</span></h2> s</span></h2> <p>The company was initially funded with US$12,000 from <a href="/wiki/Y_Combina tor_(company)" title="Y Combinator (company)">Y Combinator</a>, and received ove r US$3.7 million in June 2007 from <a href="/wiki/Redpoint_Ven href="/wiki/Redpoint_Ventures" tures" title="Redp oint Ventures">Redpoint Ventures</a> and The Kinsey Hills Group.<sup id="cite_re f-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>21<span>] href="#cite_note-21"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></ </span></ a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span>[< /span>22<span>]</span></a></sup> /span>22<span>]</span> </a></sup> In December 2008, the company raised US$9 milli on in a second round of funding, led by <a href="/wiki/Charles_River_Ventures" t itle="Charles River Ventures">Charles River Ventures</a> with re-investment from Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group, and hired as president George Consagr a, former <a href="/wiki/Bebo" title="Bebo">Bebo</a> <a href="/wiki/Chief_operat ing_officer" title="Chief operating officer">COO</a> and managing director of <a href="/wiki/Organic_Inc" title="Organic Inc" class="mw-redirect">Organic Inc</a >.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span>[</ href="#cite_note-23"><span>[</span> span> 23<span>]</span></a></sup> 23<span>]</span></a></ sup> Consagra left Scribd and became <a href="/wiki/CEO" t itle="CEO" class="mw-redirect">CEO</a> class="mw-redirect">CEO</a> of Good Guide in August 2010.</p> <p>David O. Sacks, former <a href="/wiki/PayPal" title="PayPal">PayPal</a> title="PayPal">PayPal</a> COO a nd founder of <a href="/wiki/Yammer" title="Yammer">Yammer</a> title="Yammer">Yammer</a> and <a href="/wik i/Geni.com" title="Geni.com">Geni</a>, title="Geni.com">Geni</a>, joined Scribd’s board of directors in Janua ry 2010. Scribd hired Robert Macdonald, former head of media and publisher partn erships at <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>, in July 2010 as its SVP of business development and opened a New York office.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"> href="#cite_note-24"><span>[</span>24<span>]< <span>[</span>24<span>]</span></a></su /span></a></su p> Scribd also utilizes <a href="/wiki/AdSense" title="AdSense">Google Advertise ments</a> for revenue generation.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href
="#cite_note-25"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup> ="#cite_note-25"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span ></a></sup> It also makes revenue from Scribd Store sales.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_n ote-26"><span>[</span>26<span>]</span></a></su ote-26"><span>[</span> 26<span>]</span></a></sup> p> In August 2010 it began beta te sting premium services.</p> <p>Scribd raised its largest round in January 2011 bringing in an additional $13 M. The latest round was led by MLC Investments of Australia and SVB Capital and included several previous investors.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a h ref="#cite_note-27"><span>[</span>27<span>]</s ref="#cite_note-27"><s pan>[</span>27<span>]</span></a></sup></p> pan></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=5" title="Edit section: Technology">edit</a>]</span> <span class=" mw-headline" id="Technology">Technolog id="Technology">Technology</span></h2> y</span></h2> <p>Scribd used iPaper, which is a rich document format similar to <a href="/wiki /PDF" title="PDF" class="mw-redirect">PDF</a> built for the web, which allows us ers to embed documents into a web page.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference">< a href="#cite_note-28"><span>[</span>28<span>]</span></a></sup> href="#cite_note-28"><span>[</span>28<sp an>]</span></a></sup> iPaper was built with <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash" title="Adobe Flash">Adobe Flash</a>, allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, an d Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader has Flash installed (although Scribd has announced non-Flash support for the iPhone).<sup id="cite_ref-29" cl ass="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><s href="#cite_note-29"><span>[</span>29<span>]</s pan>[</span>29<span>]</span></a></sup> pan></a></sup> All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including Word docs, <a h ref="/wiki/PowerPoint" title="PowerPoint" class="mw-redirect">PowerPoint</a> pre sentations, <a href="/wiki/PDF" title="PDF" class="mw-redirect">PDFs</a>, <a hre f="/wiki/OpenDocument" title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> documents, <a href= "/wiki/OpenOffice.org_XML" "/wiki/OpenOffice.org_ XML" title="OpenOffice.org XML">OpenOffice.org XML</a> doc uments, and <a href="/wiki/PostScript" title="PostScript">PostScript</a> title="PostScript">PostScript</a> files.< /p> <p>All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either private or open largerorScribd The iPaper document viewer isbe also embeddable into anythe website blog,community. making it simple to embed doc uments in their original layout regardless of file format.</p> <p>Scribd iPaper requires <a href="/wiki/Flash_cookie" title="Flash cookie" clas s="mw-redirect">Flash cookies</a> cookies</a> to be enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span>[< href="#cite_note-30"><span>[</ / span>30<span>]</span></a></sup> span>30<span>]</span>< /a></sup> If the requirements are not met, there is no mes sage; the white or gray display area is simply blank.</p> <p>Scribd launched its own <a href="/wiki/API" title="API" class="mw-redirect">A class="mw-redirect">A PI</a> to power external/third-party applications. However, only a few applicati ons use this API. <sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31 href="#cite_note-31 "><span>[</span>31<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>On May 5, 2010, Scribd launched the largest implementation of <a href="/wiki/ HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a> to date at the <a href="/wiki/Web_2.0" title="Web 2.0">Web 2.0</a> Conference in <a href="/wiki/San_Francis href="/wiki/San_Francisco" co" title="San Francis co">San Francisco</a>. <sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_no te-32"><span>[</span>32<span>]</span></a></sup te-32"><span>[</span>3 2<span>]</span></a></sup> > TechCrunch reported that Scribd is migrating away from Flash to HTML5. "Scribd co-founder and chief technology o fficer Jared Friedman tells me: We are scrapping three years of Flash developme nt and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 is a dramatically b etter reading experience than Flash. Now any document can become a Web page. "<s up id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span>[</span>33<s pan>]</span></a></sup> In July 2010 Publishers Weekly wrote a cover story on Scr ibd entitled “Betting the House on HTML5.”<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span>[</span>34<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=6" title="Edit section: Reception">edit</a>]</span> <span class="m w-headline" id="Reception">Recepti id="Reception">Reception</span></h2> on</span></h2> <p>Scribd has been praised by several newspapers<sup class="noprint Inline-Templ ate" style="white-space:nowrap style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a ;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia: href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words Avoid_weasel_words " title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words" class="mw-redirect"><sp class="mw-redirect"><span an title="The mate rial in the vicinity of this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution.
from December 2011">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> 2011">which?</span></a></i>]</sup> and has been dubbed as the pote ntial "YouTube for documents".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="# cite_note-35"><span>[</span>35<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>Notable users of Scribd include Virginia senator <a href="/wiki/Mark_Warner" title="Mark Warner">Mark Warner</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a h ref="#cite_note-36"><span>[</span>36<span>]</s ref="#cite_note-36"><s pan>[</span>36<span>]</span></a></sup> pan></a></sup> former California g ubernatorial candidate <a href="/wiki/Meg_Whitman" title="Meg Whitman">Meg Whitm an</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" title="New York Times" class="mw-redir ect">New York Times</a></i> DealBook reporter <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Ross_Sorkin" title="Andrew Ross Sorkin">Andrew Ross Sorkin</a>, All Things D Reporter <a hre f="/wiki/Kara_Swisher" title="Kara Swisher">Kara Swisher">Kara Swisher</a>, the U.S. <a href=" /wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" /wiki/Federal_Communic ations_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commissio n">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC), <a href="/wiki/Red_Cross" title= "Red Cross" class="mw-redirect">Red Cross</a>, <a href="/wiki/UNICEF" title="UNI CEF">UNICEF</a>, <a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Foru m">World Economic Forum</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_Com href="/wiki/United_Nations_Economic_Commission_f mission_f or_Europe" title="United Nations Economic Commission for Europe">United Nations Economic Commission for Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_World_Bank" title="The Wo rld Bank" class="mw-redirect">The World Bank</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Comp any" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>, HewlettPackard, <a href= "/wiki/Samsung" title="Samsung">Samsung</a> title="Samsung">Samsung</a> and the Living Torah.</p> <p>Scribd has currently more than 50 million users and it hosts more than tens o f millions of documents. Scribd s documents are embedded more than 10 million ti mes across the web and more than 1.8 million searches are conducted on Scribd s website everyday.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37" ><span>[</span>37<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=7" title="Edit section: Criticism">edit</a>]</span> <span class="m
w-headline" id="Criticism">Critici id="Criticism">Criticism</span></h2> sm</span></h2> <p>Scribd has often been accused of <a href="/wiki/Copyright_infringement" title ="Copyright infringement">copyright infringement">copyright infringement</a>. In March 2009, Scribd laun ched a copyright management system and has made upgrades to the system including the addition of <a href="/wiki/Optical_character_recognit href="/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" ion" title="Optical ch aracter recognition">OCR</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The N ew York Times">The New York Times</a></i> reported in May 2009 that Scribd hoste d <a href="/wiki/Pirated" title="Pirated" class="mw-redirect">pirated</a> class="mw-redirect">pirated</a> works by authors such as <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">U rsula K. Le Guin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimes2009 id="cite_ref-NYTimes2009-05-11_38-0" -05-11_38-0" class="reference" ><a href="#cite_note-NYTim href="#cite_note-NYTimes2009-05-11-38"><span>[ es2009-05-11-38"><span>[</span>38<span>]</span></ </span>38<span>]</span></a></s a></s up></p> <p>In September 2009, American author <a href="/wiki/Elaine_Sc href="/wiki/Elaine_Scott" ott" title="Elaine Scott" class="mw-redirect">Elaine Scott</a> alleged that Scribd "shamelessly pr ofits from the stolen copyrighted works of innumerable authors."<sup id="cite_re f-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span>[</span>39<span>] href="#cite_note-39"><span>[</span>39<span>]</span></ </span></ a></sup> Her attorneys Joe Sibley and <a href="/wiki/Kiwi_Camara" title="Kiwi Ca mara">Kiwi Camara</a> sought <a href="/wiki/Class_acti href="/wiki/Class_action" on" title="Class action">c lass action</a> status in their efforts to win damages from Scribd for allegedly "egregious copyright infringement."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a h ref="#cite_note-40"><span>[</span>40<span>]</s ref="#cite_note-40"><s pan>[</span>40<span>]</span></a></sup><sup pan></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41 " class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span>[</span>41<span> href="#cite_note-41"><span>[</span>41<span>]</span></a></ ]</span></a></ sup> On May 11, 2009, Motoko Rich, writing in the <i>New York Times</i>, reporte d on Scribd s hosting of pirated works. Sibley Camara filed a class action lawsu it against Scribd, accusing it of calculated copyright infringement for profit.< sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span>[</span>42< span>]</span></a></sup> span>]</span></a></sup > The suit was dropped in July 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"> href="#cite_note-43"><span>[</span>43<span>]< <span>[</span>43<span>]</span></a></su /span></a></su p><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span>[</ href="#cite_note-44"><span>[</span> span> 44<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <p>In 2007, one year after its inception, Scribd had been served with 25 <a href ="/wiki/DMCA" title="DMCA" class="mw-redirect">DMCA</a> class="mw-redirect">DMCA</a> take down notices.<sup i
d="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span>[</span>45<span href="#cite_note-45"><span>[</span>45<span> > ]</span></a></sup> It is not known how many <a href="/wiki/DMCA" title="DMCA" cl ass="mw-redirect">DMCA</a> ass="mw-redirect">DMCA </a> notices have been served up to now, but on 8 January 2013, a single author, <a href="/wiki/Steven_Saylor" title="Steven Saylor">Steve n Saylor</a>, notified Scribd of 17 unauthorized uploads of his copyrighted work .<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span>[</s href="#cite_note-46"><span>[</span>4 pan>4 6<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=8" title="Edit section: Controversy">edit</a>]</span> <span class= "mw-headline" id="Controversy">Controv id="Controversy">Controversy</span></h2> ersy</span></h2> <p>In March 2009, the passwords of several <a href="/wiki/Comcast" title="Comcas t">Comcast</a> customers were leaked on Scribd. The passwords were later removed when the news was published by <i>The New York Times</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"> href="#cite_note-47"><span>[</span>47<span>]< <span>[</span>47<span>]</span></a></su /span></a></su p><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span>[</ href="#cite_note-48"><span>[</span> span> 48<span>]</span></a></sup><sup 48<span>]</span></a></ sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite _note-49"><span>[</span>49<span>]</span></a></ _note-49"><span>[</spa n>49<span>]</span></a></sup></p> sup></p> <p>In July 2010, <a href="/wiki/GigaOM" title="GigaOM" title="GigaOM">GigaOM</a> >GigaOM</a> reported that the script of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Social href="/wiki/The_Social_Network" _Network" title="The Social Network">T he Social Network</a></i> movie was uploaded and leaked on Scribd; it was prompt ly taken down per Sony’s DMCA request.<sup id="cite_ref-gig_50-0" class="reference "><a href="#cite_note-gig-50"> href="#cite_note-gig-50"><span>[</span>50<span>]< <span>[</span>50<span>]</span></a></sup></p> /span></a></sup></p> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=9" title="Edit section: Supported file formats">edit</a>]</sp formats">edit</a>]</span> an> < span class="mw-headline" id="Supported_file_formats">Supported file formats</spa n></h2> <p>Supported formats include:<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#c ite_note-51"><span>[</span>51<span>]</span></a></sup></p> <ul> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a> (<a href="/wiki/.xls" title=".xls" class="mw-redirect">.xls</a>, <a href="/wiki/ .xlsx" title=".xlsx" class="mw-redirect">. class="mw-redirect">.xlsx</a>)</li> xlsx</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint" title="Microsoft PowerPoint">Microsoft PowerPoint</a> (<a href="/wiki/.ppt" title=".ppt" class="mw-redirect">.ppt</a>, .pps, <a href="/wiki/.pptx" title=".pptx" class="mw-redirect">.pptx</a>, <a href ="/wiki/.ppsx" title=".ppsx" class="mw-redirect">. class="mw-redirect">.ppsx</a>)</li> ppsx</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Microsoft Word</a> (<a href="/wiki/.doc" title=".doc" class="mw-redirect">.doc</a>, <a href="/wiki/.do cx" title=".docx" class="mw-redirect">.docx</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenDocument" title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> (<a href= "/wiki/.odt" title=".odt" class="mw-redirect">.odt</a>, class="mw-redirect">.odt</a>, .odp, .ods, .odf, .odg)< /li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenOffice.org_XML" title="OpenOffice.org XML">OpenOffice.org XML</a> (<a href="/wiki/.sxw" title=".sxw" class="mw-redirect">.s class="mw-redirect">.sxw</a>, xw</a>, .sxi, .sxc, .sxd)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plain_text" title="Plain text">Plain text</a> (<a href="/wiki /.txt" title=".txt" class="mw-redirect">.t class="mw-redirect">.txt</a>)</li> xt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portable_Document_Format" href="/wiki/Portable_Document_Format" title="Portable Document Format">Po rtable Document Format</a> (.pdf)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/PostScript" title="PostScript">PostScript</a> (.ps)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rich_text_format" title="Rich text format" class="mw-redirect ">Rich text format</a> (.rtf)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tagged_image_file_format" href="/wiki/Tagged_image_file_format" title="Tagged image file format" cl ass="mw-redirect">Tagged ass="mw-redirect">Tagg ed image file format</a> (.tif, .tiff)</li> </ul> <h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&actio href="/w/index.php?title=Scribd&action=edi n=edi t&section=10" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</span> <span class="m w-headline" id="See_also">See also</span></h2> <ul> <li><a href="/wiki/Document_collaboration" title="Document collaboration">Docume
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