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Scribd

Scribd Inc. (pronounced /ˈskrɪbd/) is an American media company that operates four primary platforms: Scribd, Everand, SlideShare, and Fable. Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 240 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music.…

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Founded
March 2007; 19 years ago (2007-03)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Available in
English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish
CEO
Tony Grimminck
Founder(s)
Trip Adler Jared Friedman Tikhon Bernstam
Products
Scribd SlideShare Everand Fable

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Scribd

Nodes123
Edges122
Triples149
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.01626
Components1

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Scribd

Top relations

related to Accusations of copyright infringement · 22
Scribd → American, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Elaine Scott, Harry Potter, Her, Ian McEwan, In, In March, In September, Jeffrey Archer, July, Ken Follett, Neil Blair, Philippa Gregory, Rowling, Rowling's, Rowling’s, Salman Rushdie, The
related to Founding (2007–2013) · 22
Scribd → Adler, Combinator, Comscore, Harvard, He, His, In, It, Jared Friedman, March, November, PDFs, PowerPoints, San Francisco, Stanford, The, There, Trip Adler, Web, While
related to Subscription service (2013–2023) · 21
Scribd → According, Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chuck Klosterman, David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ernest Hemingway, HarperCollins, In March, In May, In October, Lonely Planet, Ray Bradbury, Readers, Schuster, Scribd's, Simon, Stephen King, The, These, This
related to Comics · 17
Scribd → Archie, Boom, Daredevil, December, Dynamite, Galaxy, Guardians, However, IDW, In February, Marvel, Studios, The, The Avengers, These, Valiant, X-O Manowar
related to Technology · 16
Scribd → Adobe Flash, All, Flash, In July, Linux, Mac OS, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, PDF, PDFs, PostScript, PowerPoint, The, Windows, Word, XML
related to Audiobooks · 10
Scribd → George, Gillian Flynn, In April, In November, John Grisham, Lena Dunham, Martin, Penguin Random House, This, Wired
related to Timeline · 10
Scribd → Also, April, Developer Conference, Facebook, In April, In February, Readcast, September, TechCrunch, Twitter
related to Controversies · 7
Scribd → Comcast, In July, In March, Sony's DMCA, The, The New York Times, The Social Network
related to Social reading app for book club communities (2025) · 4
Scribd → At, Fable, In, Padmasree Warrior
related to BookID · 3
Scribd → BookID, This, To

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documents subscription service company slideshare everand audiobooks 2010 digital million launched document available social 2007 000 books unlimited march reading

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ScribdAvailable inEnglish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish1.00infobox
ScribdCEOTony Grimminck1.00infobox
ScribdFoundedMarch 2007; 19 years ago (2007-03)1.00infobox
ScribdFounder(s)Trip Adler Jared Friedman Tikhon Bernstam1.00infobox
ScribdHeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.1.00infobox
ScribdProductsScribd SlideShare Everand Fable1.00infobox
ScribdServicesSocial reading and publishing platform1.00infobox
ScribdType of businessPrivate1.00infobox
ScribdURLwww.scribdinc.com1.00infobox
Scribdis adigital document library that hosts over 240 million documents0.90text
Guardians of the Galaxyinstance ofThese included series0.80text
Daredevilinstance ofThese included series0.80text

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