“Netflix for ebooks” Oyster launched on iPad and opened up to everybody Wednesday; previously it had only been available on iPhone. Rival service Scribd also released some stats showing that most… Read more »
On Tuesday, Scribd officially launched its new ebook subscription service, which offers all-you-can-read access for $8.99 a month. The service includes a broad partnership with ‘Big 5′ publisher HarperCollins. Read more »
The traditional textbook publishing model, based on dead trees and middlemen, can force students to shell out hundreds of dollars for a stack of photocopies. Now, two law professors are offering… Read more »
The anti-SOPA and PIPA demonstrations don’t stop with site-wide blackouts planned for Wednesday by a number of web giants. People also have plans to meet up in real life and take… Read more »
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app t… Read more »
Scribd has launched a new iPhone and web application called Float aimed at putting all of a user’s reading materials — from books, to blog posts, to newspaper and magazine articles… Read more »
The idea of social reading is not new: Reading, much like music, has always been a very social behavior. But with the advent of digital publishing and, more recently, the ability to… Read more »
Social publishing site Scribd is considering a number of premium products as an additional revenue stream to its ad sales and year-and-a-hal… Read more »
Scribd just emailed us to let us know that today’s California Proposition 8 ruling is the most viral document in the history of the site. The document is currently receiving more… Read more »
Although magazines like Wired are reporting strong results for their early iPad efforts, for most publishers, this is still an experiment to… Read more »