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Random House, Simon & Schuster Among Brands Distributing Works on Scribd
SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2009 – Scribd, Inc., the world’s largest social publishing
website, today announced that it has partnered with major publishers to bring books and other
professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers. Random House, Simon &
Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson and Manning Publications
are among the companies uploading and sharing entire novels, sneak preview chapters and
exclusive excerpts from best-selling authors and book series, for free on Scribd.com.
“These partnerships help cement Scribd’s position as the online destination for readers while
giving publishers a completely fresh platform to reach a new audience of millions,” said Trip
Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. “Now, in addition to original writings and documents
contributed by our users – short stories, research reports, even recipes and sheet music – readers
can discover premium works by best-selling authors on Scribd.”
Media brands already using Scribd to embed documents on their own websites include The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, NPR, Fox Business News, and many others.
More than 50,000 new documents are uploaded daily using Scribd’s iPaper reader, a technology
that makes it easy to upload, share and embed original writings and documents in their “printed”
layouts, regardless of file format. Scribd documents are indexed by all major search engines,
making them easily discoverable by more than 1 billion Internet users worldwide.
“Scribd has quickly become a unique online community where readers of all tastes can go to
discover, explore, and share first-rate content,” said Ellie Hirschhorn, executive vice president
and chief digital officer of Simon & Schuster. “Its unique approach provides us with the desired
flexibility to determine how our content is viewed and used on a case by case basis, and is
proving to be an effective tool for creating excitement for our books.”
“Word-of-mouth, recommendations and ‘hand-selling’ are tried and true ways to increase sales,
and Scribd makes all those things possible in an extremely cost-effective, online environment,”
said Matt Schwartz, director of digital strategy for Random House Publishing Group. “Scribd
offers publishers an amazing new marketing platform that will surely generate book sales.”
“In today’s crowded book marketplace, publishers are always looking for new technologies that
help their authors and books stand out,” said David Marshall, Director for Digital Communities
at Berrett-Koehler Publishers. “By offering our book excerpts for free to tens of millions of
Scribd readers, we reach an extensive, new audience and help people try before they buy. In
initial trials, our book excerpts on Scribd received hundreds of thousands of reads, dramatically
increasing our community of readers.”
For more information about Scribd’s program for publishers, please visit
www.scribd.com/partner.