Talk:Scribd/Archives/2013

Funding
As a Scribd employee I won't edit the wiki entry, but if someone else would like to correct the funding values, you can find accurate and up-to-date information from its CrunchBase profile. RiSC future 04:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

iPaper Denmark
As an employee at the iPaper company, I won´t edit the wiki entry either. On the other hand, I would like to tell you how the term ´iPaper´ started here in Denmark.

5 years ago two young Danish Entrepreneurs began to work on the possibility to digitalize a PDF-file. To make it more presentable and functional, they created a component that made it easy to convert the PDF file and make nice navigations options which has resolved in the iPaper solution.

Even though they forgot to encrypt the page flip code they made – which some competitors of today now benefit from - they began selling different iPaper solutions through their own web-agency and after a short while they saw the demand of their product.

In the year 2006 iPaper CMS became an independent product – the company iPaper ApS was launched and was the first provider in Denmark to show a PDF-based solution in a much higher and user-friendly presentation along with a number of other valuable functions. iPaper has been successful and the product name has also become a generic term for the technology around the world.

Today iPaper CMS is launched in 21 countries and we are still in a search for new business opportunities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.160.106.22 (talk) 08:53, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Clarification: the user above is describing the origins of a competing product called "iPaper," which is completely unrelated to the iPaper product developed by Scribd.com. Scribd's iPaper was conceived of by Jean Rene Bedard in San Francisco, Ca, an employee of Scribd.

More information on Scribd's iPaper: http://www.scribd.com/tools/ipaper More information on the unrelated Danish product called iPaper: http://www.ipaper.dk/

- Comment left by Ed McManus of Scribd.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.100.89.70 (talk) 21:03, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

Link to IPaper article
This link appears as a blue one, but is redirected to the same (Scribd) page it appears in. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.97.218.240 (talk) 15:36, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Ethical?
How is ipaper ethical? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.225.113.95 (talk) 16:07, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation?
Is there an "official" way to pronounce the site's name? Is is the same as "scribed" (as in transcribed) or should it be scrib'd (sounds like crib)? -- Scarpy (talk) 20:44, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

It is the latter: scrib'd (sounds like crib) (James Yu) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamesjyu (talk • contribs) 06:59, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * The company's founder pronounces it the latter way: see here. Lfh (talk) 15:50, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

review urls
to help add relevant inline references/notes. David Woodward (talk) 15:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
 * http://gigaom.com/2008/02/19/scribd-ipaper/ like YouTube
 * http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2253919,00.asp like YouTube
 * http://www.appappeal.com/app/scribd/

Lifespan of a typical post
When a user uploads an original .PDF file to Scribd, how long does it stay there? Is there an expiration date of some kind? Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 09:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

It stays there indefinitely. Scribd only removes files for legal reasons or upon user request. RiSC future 01:00, 14 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by RISCfuture (talk • contribs)

Relevance of Scribd description
Regarding "Scribd iPaper requires that Flash cookies are enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[4] If the requirements are not met, there is no message; the white or gray display area is simply blank." in the description of Scribd -- IMO this is not relevant or useful information regarding the company or technology. Nowhere at scribd.com is this documented to be true, and Wikipedia is not a bugbase. That said, it's been fixed. I'm an employee, so I won't change it -- but perhaps someone else can remove it -- if only for lack of relevance. Flashpirate (talk) 23:16, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Has Scribd issued a press release on this? I can't find a ref either way. -Colfer2 (talk) 14:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Flash Required?
I don't have flash installed on my computer at all, but I can presently read documents on scribd. Flash is not presently required.203.206.162.148 (talk) 02:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Supported browsers
Scribd runs like shit on Opera 11, Firefox 3.0, maybe others too. Internet Explorer 6 crashes lots of times. Internet Explorer 8 seems to work.

Runs fine for me. Subjective claim. Mreasons (talk) 16:37, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Introduction
"Scribd (pronounced /ˈskrɪbd/) is the world’s largest social reading and publishing company. They make it easy to share and discover entertaining, informative and original written content across the web and mobile devices. Their vision is to liberate the written word, to connect people with the information and ideas that matter most to them."

This is a horrible introduction. There is no source for the claim that scribd is the largest "social reading and publishing company". Also the word "social reading" is just made up, if you define yourself in a different way you can make all sorts of claims, but it doesn't actually say anything. That aside the next lines read like an ad. Words like "they" "easy" and "their" sound either POV or are weaselworks. This needs to be reworked, to not look like an ad. 77.13.140.62 (talk) 15:41, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed update to "Supported file formats"
Scribd now supports the following file formats in addition to those listed in the article: However, these file formats can only be seen in the Upload file dialog box that appears (in Windows) when you click the Upload button in the Scribd website. The reference documentation here is outdated and does not list these new formats, and I could not find any other up-to-date documentation in the Scribd website. Should these file formats be included in the article anyway? -- ADTCTalk Ctrb. 18:51, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppsx)
 * OpenDocument (.odf, .odg)
 * OpenOffice.org XML (.sxd)
 * Tagged Image File Format (.tif, .tiff)
 * As no objections were raised, I have updated the "Supported file formats" section with these additional formats. Happy New Year! -- ADTCTalk Ctrb. 05:51, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Removed POV
I pulled the below paragraph out because it's basically content free complaining about Scribd. If anyone wants to look at it and see if there's something useful in there that could be cited and restored, feel free 68.118.227.250 (talk) 18:55, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Different from Googlebooks Scribd ask to pay users to read not for sale "premium content" but does not pay the authors. It does not allow users outside USA to sell books in its shop, but charges readers to see the premium content of those writers or publishers. Amazon and Barnes and Noble have more publisher friendly policies regarding this. Sometimes, by closing a related Facebook link or account also deletes the Scribd accounts, making serious damage to publishers who trust this vendor. There is not an undelete service even if Scribd faulty programming is the responsible one. There is no chat, phone or direct customer support.

New comparison needed
Hey I see there isn't a list of document sharing websites nor a Comparison of such sites. Iam going to start a new page for that and everyone is welcome to fill it out. Good comparison tools increase competition witch will benefit users. Ok so Iam not that experienced with editing wikis so if I make misstakes help me fix them. I'll edit it in the See also section. BTW is Document sharing and collaboration the same thing? If not there isn't a page for document sharing that the start sentence links to that discribes more in detail what such a webwsite is. Anyway shouldn't there be a link for that as well? thanx alot.84.55.88.109 (talk) 18:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Unreferenced claims removed
I removed the following claims from the intro because they feel like puffery, especially given they are unreferenced.
 * "world's biggest digital library"
 * "first ebook subscription service"
 * "has been profitable for years" - should be more specific (which year?) to avoid puffery

If properly referenced (and true), they could be notable, so I'm leaving them here now in case anyone wants to research. -- Beland (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Unreferenced claims removed
I removed the following claims from the intro because they feel like puffery, especially given they are unreferenced.
 * "world's biggest digital library"
 * "first ebook subscription service"
 * "has been profitable for years" - should be more specific (which year?) to avoid puffery

If properly referenced (and true), they could be notable, so I'm leaving them here now in case anyone wants to research. -- Beland (talk) 20:17, 22 October 2013 (UTC)