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What is Scribd?

Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price.

Our Vision

Inspire the world through stories and knowledge.

Our Mission

Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience

Our core values

Read the transcript of From Our Founder video

Trip Adler, Founder & CEO

We launched as a simple way to publish any kind of written content on the web. Now, Scribd is keeping reading alive in the 21st century.

A brief history of Scribd

A few of our publishing partners

Other fun facts*

Transcript of From Our Founder

Trip (Co-Founder and CEO): Scribd’s vision is to change that the way the world reads. We launched Scribd as a simple way to publish any kind of written content on the web. The initial idea was inspired by my dad having a medical paper. He’s a doctor and he had a medical paper he wanted to publish, so we decided to build Scribd to help him publish his paper mor easily; because it used to take eighteen months to publish a medical paper. We started with user-contributed content and then we partnered with all the big publishers to add e-Books, and then we added audiobooks, and then we added magazines, newspapers. We even have sheet music in service. One thing I’m proud of is we’re really providing a great, new business model and distribution model for publishers and authors. Reading has been one of the most important forms of communication for thousands of years, really. It’s a really important way that people communicate deep, important thoughts and the way people learn and use their minds. In this current social media era, everyone is looking at really short-form content, and video and snaps and all that, and I think it’s more important than ever that reading stays alive. Hopefully, Scribd is keeping reading alive in the twenty-first century.

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