Scribd’s e-book store jump-starts The Sower’s mainstream success

Scribd’s e-book store jump-starts The Sower’s mainstream success

Scribd, a company that lets you share documents online, is starting to shake up the book market.

Author Kemble Scott’s previous novel SOMA was published traditionally and became a bestseller, but he decided that his new book, The Sower, included so many topical references that it might feel… Continue Reading

Scribd to sell 5,000 e-books from Simon & Schuster

Scribd to sell 5,000 e-books from Simon & Schuster

Scribd, the site that lets users upload, share and embed documents, first launched its e-books store back in May as a potential competitor to Amazon. Now it has inched closer to its goal with a deal to sell 5,000 titles from major publishing house Simon… Continue Reading

Authors take control in Scribd’s new eBook market

Authors take control in Scribd’s new eBook market

Scribd, the popular site for sharing documents, has launched a store that could eventually grow into a serious competitor to Amazon. There’s a bit of David-and-Goliath to the battle (not that Scribd has to kill Amazon to succeed), but there are reasons to think the… Continue Reading

Document-sharing site DocStoc rebrands to keep up with rival Scribd

Document-sharing site DocStoc rebrands to keep up with rival Scribd

DocStoc , the site that lets you post, share and embed PDFs, documents and other files — much like its prime competitor Scribd — has emerged from beta with a new look and a new business model . While the site is growing rapidly —… Continue Reading

Scribd raises $9 million, hires new president for social publishing

Scribd raises $9 million, hires new president for social publishing

Social publishing firm Scribd is announcing today that it has raised $9 million in a second round of funding and has hired George Consagra, former chief operating officer of Bebo, as its president.

The San Francisco-based company lets people share and publish original writings on its… Continue Reading

Roundup: Facebook movie casting, Yahoo shuts down Mash, and more

Roundup: Facebook movie casting, Yahoo shuts down Mash, and more

The Facebook Movie has a very unofficial casting call — Yesterday, top Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin let it be known he was working on a movie about the high-flying social network. Here’s a (rather entertaining) formulation of which actor might play which geek role. Yes, Michael… Continue Reading

Zoho adds document sharing to its growing lineup

Zoho adds document sharing to its growing lineup

Zoho, a company that offers a growing variety of cheap and free online office applications, just launched Zoho Share, a service for sharing documents on the web or within your company.

Now, all documents, presentations, spreadsheets and PDFs created using Zoho Apps can be viewed as… Continue Reading

Roundup: Farber takes over at CNET, Mozilla’s new email subsidiary, Scribd iPaper, and more

Roundup: Farber takes over at CNET, Mozilla’s new email subsidiary, Scribd iPaper, and more

Here’s the latest action:
1) Dan Farber takes the helm at CNET
2) Mozilla launches email-focused subsidiary
3) Scribd creates iPaper, an Acrobat competitor
4) Hewlett-Packard has great first quarter
5) Tesla Motors pulls in another $40M
6) Verizon, AT&T unveil new unlimited wireless plans
7) Oligarchs, proletariat run amok in Silicon… Continue Reading

Scribd woos publishers, schools

Scribd woos publishers, schools

Update

Scribd, the fast-growing site that lets you post documents online, has launched two free programs, one to let high-volume publishers organize and market their content, and another to allow educational institutions to store and share information securely online.

The company, which calls itself the “YouTube for… Continue Reading

DivShare adds document viewer, takes on Scribd

DivShare adds document viewer, takes on Scribd

DivShare, one of the best in the ever expanding mass of mostly undifferentiated file hosting and sharing services, has just added a flash-based document viewer to its offerings, which include photo slideshow, video, and music players.

Like that of Scribd and SlideShare, DivShare’s document viewer lets… Continue Reading

Docstoc, the “YouTube for professional documents,” raises cash

Docstoc, the “YouTube for professional documents,” raises cash

Docstoc, the company that describes itself as the “YouTube for professional documents” has closed a small first round of financing.

Docstoc, along with competitor Scribd, makes it easy for people to upload and post entire documents on the Web — where they can be easily read… Continue Reading

Roundup: Google phone, Bancrofts bought off?, Yelp, Docstoc, Bittorrent & more

Roundup: Google phone, Bancrofts bought off?, Yelp, Docstoc, Bittorrent & more

Here’s the latest action:

Google phone details — Google’s Eric Schmidt had said Google wasn’t releasing a Google Phone, but the WSJ has the latest details about its significant action in the phone area nonetheless. Namely, it is working with other manufacturers.

Yahoo executive Daniel Rosensweig joins Quadrangle… Continue Reading

Scribd raises $3.7M, amid lots of interest

Scribd raises $3.7M, amid lots of interest

San-Francisco-based Scribd, the so-called “YouTube for documents,” has attracted a lot of attention — including plenty of suitors from Silicon Valley’s venture capital firms.

So it comes as no surprise that, shortly after launch, it has raised $3.7 million from Redpoint and original seed investor Kinsey… Continue Reading

Roundup: Scribd hype, Stockpickr, Red Herring, Cozmo and lots more

Roundup: Scribd hype, Stockpickr, Red Herring, Cozmo and lots more

Here’s the latest action:

Scribd hype — Maybe because it calls itself the “YouTube for documents,” the young Scribd is getting a lot of interest from Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists. We’ve talked to some eager to invest. Rumors are leaking out, including at Gigaom and Techcrunch that… Continue Reading

Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

Scribd, the “YouTube for documents,” copyright violations and all

Updated

Scribd, the new Silicon Valley company pitching itself as the “Youtube for documents” is getting some good traction, in part because it hosts copyrighted material.

Scribd launched three weeks ago, and is attracting 100,000 unique visitors a day. Those are the viewers. Far fewer have signed… Continue Reading