Shortly after its 2006 launch, Scribd.com stumbled across an easy way to explain what it did: it called itself "YouTube for documents". The phrase sounded snappy enough, and even if was a little ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

YouTube has been a huge success in getting vast numbers of video clips online, and in establishing the Flash-based FLV video format as a way of making them almost ...

Scribd is launching iPaper@Scribd today, a new feature that lets users convert outgoing email attachments to the company’s iPaper format. Documents in iPaper can be viewed in any browser that supports ...

As most of us know, Scribd is the most popular document sharing site available, with over 50,000 uploads each day. With that being said, Scribd clearly has established its authority and web presence.

Scribd, the online platform that lets you publish and discover original writings on the Web, this week launched a new subscription service letting you read unlimited books for $9 per month. I'm ...

Two years after shifting away from its unlimited subscription model in favor of monthly credits, Scribd has announced that its subscribers will once again be able to access the entirety of its vast ...

The latest company making a bid to bring the subscription model to the book world is one that may already be familiar to TechCrunch readers — social publishing service Scribd. Scribd first launched in ...

It's much easier to spend your Internet time watching funny cat videos than to actually do something productive, but the educational stuff is out there. Take Scribd, for instance: a virtual library of ...