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Scribd Engagement More than Doubles with HTML5,Company Transitions Tens of Millions of Documents IntoBillions of Web Pages
Forbes Media, Liquid Comics, Workman Publishing and Publishers Weekly 
 
 Among New Content Partners to EmbraceHTML5, New Revenue Opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO – May 25, 2010 – 
Scribd, the world's largest social publishing andreading site, today announced the full-scale launch and availability of its free and DRM-free library of written content -- including tens of millions of books, magazines,newspapers, presentations, research and more -- from Flash to HTML5, the popular newweb development language. The move allows people to consume any written work with just a web browser, providing a vastly superior reading experience on any device. It also presents new revenue opportunities for publishers.To commemorate the milestone and as part of a longer-term content partnership, 
ForbesMedia
will make available its "Vintage Warren: The Best of Forbes on Buffett" specialissue free to Scribd readers first; 
Liquid Comics
,with titles from Guy Ritchie andDeepak Chopra, among others, will offer hundreds of graphic novels and comics onScribd;
Workman Publishing 
will offer the complete job hunter's bible "Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview" and other full-length titles; and 
Publishers Weekly
willshare special issues and reports, starting immediately with its PW Show DailyatBookExpo America(BEA). The brands join tens of thousands of other publishers,media companies, corporations and organizations that are already sharing free and for- purchase content on the site."Publishers benefit from HTML5 tremendously," said Jared Friedman, co-founder andCTO of Scribd. "The distribution of their content across the social web and mobile platforms becomes virtually automatic -- no technology barriers between them and their readers, no need to build native mobile apps, an ability to easily insert multi-media or advertising into their content. The possibilities are endless.""Our mission has always been to ensure that the Forbes brand of journalism is availableto all readers across all platforms," said Bruce Upbin, managing editor, Forbes Media."Scribd's adoption of HTML5 gives us a great new way to reach more people on the Weband mobile devices."
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