In October 2013, Scribd officially launched its unlimited subscription service for e-books. Screenshots of Scribd's subscription service In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including the California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes, and HP's lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle. ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December 2009. In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and MediaBistro. The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd, including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark. That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-books on Scribd. In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital copies of their work online. It also ranked as one of the top 20 social media sites according to Comscore. In its first year, Scribd grew rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008. The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds. Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its document reader. There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a San Francisco apartment in March 2007. He co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the summer of 2006. Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content online. His father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research published. While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic papers. Scribd began as a site to host and share documents. Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books". Subscribers can access unlimited books a month from 1,000 publishers, including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.
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Scribd's e-book subscription service is available on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal computers. The company was founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.
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