Scribd is a document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. Scribd currently has more than 50 million monthly users and more than 50,000 documents are uploaded daily.[1]
iPaper is a rich document format similar to PDF built for the web, which allows users to embed documents into a web page.[2] iPaper was built with Adobe Flash, allowing it to be viewed the same across different operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) without conversion, as long as the reader has Flash installed. All major document types can be formatted into iPaper including Word docs, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, OpenOffice documents, and PostScript files.
All iPaper documents are hosted on Scribd. Scribd allows published documents to either be private or open to the larger Scribd community. The iPaper document viewer is also embeddable in any website or blog, making it simple to embed documents in their original layout regardless of file format.
Scribd iPaper requires that Flash cookies are enabled, which is the default setting in Flash.[3] If the requirements are not met, there is no message; the white or gray display area is simply blank.
Scribd launched its own API to power external/third-party applications, however, only a few applications use this API. Its revenue model has gained coverage on numerous blogs such as TechCrunch.
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