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Scribd Partners with Major Publishers to BringBooks, Exclusive Content to Community of More Than 50 Million
 Random House, Simon & Schuster Among Brands Distributing Works on Scribd 
SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2009 – 
Scribd, Inc., the world’s largest social publishingwebsite, today announced that it has partnered with major publishers to bring books and other  professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers. Random House, Simon &Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson and Manning Publicationsare among the companies uploading and sharing entire novels, sneak preview chapters andexclusive excerpts from best-selling authors and book series, for free on Scribd.com.“These partnerships help cement Scribd’s position as the
 
online destination for readers whilegiving publishers a completely fresh platform to reach a new audience of millions,” said TripAdler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. “Now, in addition to original writings and documentscontributed by our users – short stories, research reports, even recipes and sheet music – readerscan discover premium works by best-selling authors on Scribd.”Media brands already using Scribd to embed documents on their own websites include
The NewYork Times
,
The Wall Street Journal 
,
The Atlantic
, NPR, Fox Business News, and many others.More than 50,000 new documents are uploaded daily using Scribd’s iPaper reader, a technologythat makes it easy to upload, share and embed original writings and documents in their “printed”layouts, regardless of file format. Scribd documents are indexed by all major search engines,making them easily discoverable by more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide.“Scribd has quickly become a unique online community where readers of all tastes can go todiscover, explore, and share first-rate content,” said Ellie Hirschhorn, executive vice presidentand chief digital officer of Simon & Schuster. “Its unique approach provides us with the desiredflexibility to determine how our content is viewed and used on a case by case basis, and is proving to be an effective tool for creating excitement for our books.”“Word-of-mouth, recommendations and ‘hand-selling’ are tried and true ways to increase sales,and Scribd makes all those things possible in an extremely cost-effective, online environment,”said Matt Schwartz, director of digital strategy for Random House Publishing Group. “Scribdoffers publishers an amazing new marketing platform that will surely generate book sales.”“In today’s crowded book marketplace, publishers are always looking for new technologies thathelp their authors and books stand out,” said David Marshall, Director for Digital Communitiesat Berrett-Koehler Publishers. “By offering our book excerpts for free to tens of millions of Scribd readers, we reach an extensive, new audience and help people try before they buy. Ininitial trials, our book excerpts on Scribd received hundreds of thousands of reads, dramaticallyincreasing our community of readers.”
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