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SCRIBD LAUNCHES PROGRAM OFFERING FREE SCANNING AND ONLINE PUBLISHING OF ANYDOCUMENT MAILED TO SCRIBD’S OFFICES
“Convert Your Paper to iPaper” Program Lets Users Mail in Paper Documents to Be Scanned and Saved as iPaper; Anything From Love Letters to Recipes Can be Shared with Family and Friends on the Web for Free
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 1, 2008—
Scribd, the established leader in document sharing andpublishing on the Web with 16 million unique monthly visitors, today announced “Convert Your Paper toiPaper,” a new initiative that allows anyone to mail physical paper documents to Scribd to be scanned andsaved on Scribd’s website using Scribd’s iPaper format. This program is open to everyone and iscompletely free of charge.Scribd's mission is to unlock the world's information by making it really easy for people to share any kindof document content online. “Convert Your Paper to iPaper” makes it even easier for people withoutscanners or even Internet access to publish on the Web. Your favorite recipes, newspaper articles or anyprint content can now be digitized and preserved flawlessly on the Internet. Scribd is making it easier than ever to share your documents with friends and family.To participate, just send a brief description of the type and quantity of your documents topaper@scribd.com. A Scribd representative will reply shortly with further instructions for how and whereto mail the documents. Scribd will have the content scanned and published on Scribd.com to be easilyshared with anyone. Include your Scribd username along with your paper so that your content will bepublished in your account. If you are not a Scribd user, include your email address, and Scribd will emailyou a link to your published content.“We realize not everyone is going to have the time and resources to scan paper documents, or maybesome just didn’t realize it was an option,” said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. “People havebeen writing on paper for thousands of years, but only saving files in Word or PDF for 20, and we don’twant to ignore all that content. It occurred to us that if we did the heavy lifting on the scanning peoplewould be more willing to participate and we could unlock so much quality content.”Since launching one year ago, Scribd has built the largest document-sharing website on the Internet. Inthat time they’ve developed iPaper, a document viewer built for the Web, and provided customizedservices and a first-in-the-industry copyright protection system for professional and high volumepublishers. Until now, however, there hadn’t been focused efforts to bring analog content online. Scribdsees this market as an important source of interesting, quality content.For more information about Scribd and how to have your paper documents preserved and publishedonline, visitwww.scribd.com/paper .
About Scribd
Scribd is the leader in online document sharing and publishing. It was founded in 2006 by then-Harvardstudents Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, and their friend Tikhon Bernstam, when they couldn’t find a wayto publish the documents they wrote for school on the Web. Scribd has since grown to service over 16million unique visitors per month and has the largest document-sharing community on the Internet.Documents hosted on the site are being viewed and embedded across the Internet in every corner of theglobe. Scribd is funded by Y Combinator, The Kinsey Hills Group and Redpoint Ventures. For moreinformation about Scribd, visitwww.scribd.com.###
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