Using the documents for academic use

Originally marketed as the “YouTube” for documents, Scribd began its operation as a way for
anyone to publish and host their documents and writing online. Born out of the need for one of
the site’s creators to host his father’s medical research without having to pay for publication and
wait over a year for the documents to be published, the site gained notoriety in 2009 after signing
a deal with several publications, including The New York Times, Huffington Post, TechCrunch,
and several other blogs and publications to host their documents, as well as for their Scribd
Store, which allowed users to sell digital copies of their work online.

Since then, Scribd has morphed into an online subscription service, built to read millions of
eBooks, comics, and more online with a Netflix-like subscription service. Despite this refocus on
more mainstream titles and novels, Scribd is still used by millions of people daily to host and
share online documents using the platform built by the site itself. In the site’s documents section,
you’ll find historical papers, political documents, poll results, and plenty of other information for
use in your college assignments, term papers, or just as a general document of interest. And
while viewing these articles is free by itself, albeit with some limitations on certain documents,
downloading this information to your computer is limited for often than not.