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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by maaaats on Friday January 02, 2015 @12:51PM (#8827687)
Huh, didn't know Scribd had changed focus to become an E-book service. My impression of Scribd has long been that it's a piracy-pdf site.
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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by glesica on Friday January 02, 2015 @01:57PM (#8827967)
My impression has always been that it was a service to make PDFs less useful.
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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by ryanmickle on Friday January 02, 2015 @01:03PM (#8827748)
Might you have said the same thing about YouTube?
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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by lancewiggs on Friday January 02, 2015 @02:50PM (#8828179)
YouTube made it easier to upload and watch short videos. Much easier. Scribd is an automatic Close-Tab for me. A usability nightmare.

I don't want to subscribe to Amazon's service, and have very little expectations for Scribd.

I'm amazed that the investors doubled down on such a poor end user experience, but I guess they are seeing good paying customer growth. Paying customers growth will fade away unless the end user experience is fixed.

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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by jacquesm on Friday January 02, 2015 @03:14PM (#8828285)
> I'm amazed that the investors doubled down on such a poor end user experience

Sunk cost fallacy.

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Re:Scribd Raises $22M for Its Subscription E-Book Service by cerrelio on Friday January 02, 2015 @08:21PM (#8829542)
The only thing I've seen Scribd used for is embedding legal filings on various news and e-rag sites. Getting into legitimate publishing distribution is going to be tough. Licensing content is a pain; and once the sweetheart deals expire, there go the profit margins.
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