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		<title>Scribd fails to sell news aggregation app to Yahoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch has a piece on Scribd, the document-sharing platform with 100 million registered users and 90 million monthly active users. The piece focuses on the iOS news aggregation app, Float, that Scribd developed and almost sold to Yahoo for between $2 and $8 million before Yahoo decided to walk away in February. Float had gotten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd self-censors to stop SOPA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia isn’t the only site considering a public demonstration of the evils of SOPA. Scribd has gone ahead and done it. Scribd has added a script to its page that blanks out documents word by word before users’ eyes, followed by a pop-up explaining what’s happening and why we should all be concerned about SOPA. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate to distribute documents via Scribd</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Senate has reached an agreement with Scribd to provide ad-free hosting document hosting for public Senate documents, as well as an “official Scribd liaison” presumably to help the Senate figure out how to use it. They will be using a number of other digital services as well, such as Sharepoint and UStream, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd launches iPhone reader app, hopes to become &#8216;Netflix of reading&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scribd is launching an iPhone app called the Float Reader, through which it hopes to become “the Netflix of reading.” Unfortunately, I can’t try this app out on my first-gen iPod Touch—it requires iOS 4.0—but from the news coverage it looks like an interesting attempt to bring some of the benefits of iPad-only reader apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd apologizes, pledges changes over archive fiasco</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who’ve been following the outrage about Scribd instituting a paid archive feature in which the site charged for downloads of content that had been meant to be downloadable for free (we covered it here), TechCrunch reports on the latest development. Our earlier report on the issue came from Lynn Viehl’s blog (and subsequently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 30 best free e-book websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SaveDelete has a list of the 30 best websites to download free books. I’m not familiar with all of the sites it lists, so I’m not entirely sure that all of them are completely legit. But then, you find some unauthorized books even on otherwise completely legit sites like Scribd (which is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd charging for free ebooks but not paying anything to authors?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/scribd-charging-for-ebooks-and-not-paying-anything-to-authors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/scribd-charging-for-ebooks-and-not-paying-anything-to-authors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl&#8217;s Paperback Writer blog.. It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can&#8217;t verify anything that it contains: It&#8217;s been brought to my attention that Scribd.com has begun charging people to download my free e-books hosted on their site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dare I enter the heady world of self-publishing?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/dare-i-enter-the-heady-world-of-self-publishing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/dare-i-enter-the-heady-world-of-self-publishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned back in July, I’ve posted a couple of stories to Scribd just by way of trying out the service to see how well it worked. I’ve since ended up with a number of Scribd subscribers (including Slate writer Farhad Manjoo; I’m not sure entirely why), and my stories have been read a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright lawsuit against Scribd dropped, but another continues</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-lawsuit-against-scribd-dropped-but-another-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-lawsuit-against-scribd-dropped-but-another-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-publishing supersite Scribd is off the hook for copyright infringement, at least in one case, after a lawsuit against it was either settled or abandoned (depending on who you believe). The lawsuit in question charged that Scribd’s use of a complete digital copy of a text in its anti-infringement filter was itself a copyright infringement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing to Scribd: My experience</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/publishing-to-scribd-my-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/publishing-to-scribd-my-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, after I used my Facebook credentials to create a Scribd account in order to download The Shadow Girl of Birch Grove, the fact that I created an account was shared to my Facebook friends—and a number of them subscribed to my Scribd feed. This was news to me, as I had not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marta Acosta&#8217;s &#8216;Shadow Girl&#8217; goes from free on Scribd to hardcover from Tor</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/marta-acostas-shadow-girl-goes-from-free-on-scribd-to-hardcover-from-tor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until a few years ago, the conventional wisdom was that posting your fiction on the web for free was the best way to assure that publishers would never want it, because publishers want something exclusive that nobody else has seen before. This is why forums like Baen’s Bar, where works can be posted in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free e-book: Department of Justice vs. Russian spies</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/free-e-book-department-of-justice-vs-russian-spies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/free-e-book-department-of-justice-vs-russian-spies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Monday Note” blog writes about a free e-book on Scribd that may be a little dry for some people’s tastes, but sounds very interesting all the same—the Department of Justice Complaint vs. Russian spies (June 2010). This document summarizes the DOJ’s investigations against the recently arrested Russian spies, and from their summary reads like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The movement toward magazine apps, and Scribd&#8217;s HTML5 version</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/the-movement-toward-magazine-apps-and-scribds-html5-version/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PaidContent has an article on “the anti-web movement”—the trend toward moving electronic versions of magazines away from the web and into salable apps that offer the lure of easy revenue and a different form factor from what the web can currently do. After the desktop OS and browser wars of the late 90s settled down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd begins conversion from Flash to HTML5</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/scribd-begins-conversion-from-flash-to-html5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/scribd-begins-conversion-from-flash-to-html5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch reports that self-e-publishing site Scribd is moving away from its current Flash format for uploading and viewing documents, and converting everything into HTML5. Erick Schonfeld writes: Scribd co-founder and chief technology officer Jared Friedman tells me: “We are scrapping three years of Flash development and betting the company on HTML5 because we believe HTML5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scribd goes with Blurb, HP and Mimeo for print on demand</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/scribd-goes-with-blurb-hp-and-mimeo-for-print-on-demand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/scribd-goes-with-blurb-hp-and-mimeo-for-print-on-demand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publishers Weekly is reporting that Scribd has teamed up three vendors to provide print on demand service to its customers. Blurb.com will be doing paperback books, HP&#8217;s MagCloud will be doing periodicals and Mimeo will be for documents of just a few pages. Scribd said that it will be looking for further POD partnerships in [...]]]></description>
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