In the battle to become the "Netflix of digital books," Scribd is taking its app to Amazon Kindle Fire tablets while updating its iOS and Android apps. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...

E-book subscription services Oyster and Scribd have added another big five publisher, announcing they both are adding 1,000 titles from Macmillan. Oyster now claims to offer over 1 million titles; ...

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Scribd, one of the last surviving e-book subscription services hoping to become the “Netflix for books,” is revising its policies to do away with unlimited lending from the service’s full library, ...

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Digital reading subscription service Scribd has raised a $58 million round of funding led by Spectrum Equity. The new funding round brings the total amount of money raised by Scribd to $106 million.

Scribd, one of the major firms competing to claim the title “Netflix for e-books,” has closed on a round of $22 million in funding. The move shows that investors see real potential in e-book ...

First, Scribd applied the Netflix model to books, offering unlimited access to an online library of popular titles for a flat monthly fee. Then it did the same for audio books. And now it’s moving ...

Scribd has partnered with more than 10 comic book publishers, including Marvel, Archie, IDW, and Arcana. It’s the first ebook subscription service to lock down a comic book partnership of this size.

It was just over a year ago that Scribd officially unveiled a Netflix-style subscription e-book service. As of today, subscribers will have access to 30,000 audiobooks, too. Co-founder and CEO Trip ...

Scribd was first founded as a document-hosting site in 2007 before pivoting to a subscription service for books in 2013. Its "all-you-can-read" Netflix-style model was similar to Kindle Unlimited, but ...