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Scribd Partners with Major Publishers to BringBooks, Exclusive Content to Community of More Than 50 Million
 Random House, Simon & Schuster Among Brands Distributing Works on Scribd 
SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2009 –
Scribd, Inc., the world’s largest social publishingwebsite, today announced that it has partnered with major publishers to bring books and otherprofessional works to its community of more than 50 million readers. Random House, Simon &Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson and Manning Publicationsare among the companies uploading and sharing entire novels, sneak preview chapters andexclusive 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 whilegiving publishers a completely fresh platform to reach a new audience of millions,” said TripAdler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. “Now, in addition to original writings and documentscontributed by our users – short stories, research reports, even recipes and sheet music – readerscan discover premium works by best-selling authors on Scribd.”Media brands already using Scribd to embed documents on their own websites include
The NewYork Times
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The Wall Street Journal
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The Atlantic
, NPR, Fox Business News, and many others.More than 50,000 new documents are uploaded daily using Scribd’s iPaper reader, a technologythat 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 todiscover, explore, and share first-rate content,” said Ellie Hirschhorn, executive vice presidentand chief digital officer of Simon & Schuster. “Its unique approach provides us with the desiredflexibility to determine how our content is viewed and used on a case by case basis, and isproving 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. “Scribdoffers 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 thathelp their authors and books stand out,” said David Marshall, Director for Digital Communitiesat 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, dramaticallyincreasing our community of readers.”For more information about Scribd’s program for publishers, please visitwww.scribd.com/partner.
About Scribd, Inc.
Scribd is the world’s largest social publishing website with more that 50,000 new documentsshared every day and over 50 million readers each month. Scribd is changing the way peoplediscover and share original writings and documents on the Web. Its innovative document readertechnology, iPaper, enables anyone to easily upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint and other documenttypes and share on Scribd.com or embed on thousands of other websites. Scribd is backed byCharles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Paul Graham'sY Combinator, the Kinsey HillsGroup and several prominent angel investors. For more information about Scribd, visitwww.scribd.com.Media Contact: Kathleen Miller(415) 285-0360press@scribd.com

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