Scribd: A Cool Way to Publish Your Documents Online

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It’s been a month now since I’m following interesting blogs. One benefit of following professional authors and bloggers is finding cool software tools you never thought possible.

Scribd offers publishers to upload their books, manuals or any manuscript of sort and share it online. To this date, the site claims that it receives 50,000 new documents uploaded daily.

As a university educator, I am now free to share my original writings/compositions which I have compiled through the years of teaching. You can easily upload your documents ranging from Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint to Adobe Pdf files.

Embed Scribd to Your Blog Site

One wonderful thing about Scribd is you can embed your chosen/uploaded documents to your website or blog site. Making use of Scribd API, you just click the copy button and immediately can paste the code anywhere you wish to your site.


Read it like a book

Upon pasting the Scribd API to your site, your visitors will no longer leave your website to view your inserted document. The viewer has option to display it like a list or a book better known as Scribd iPaper (Flash Streaming Document). You can navigate freely the pages of the document and increase or decrease its view options. Visitor to your site may download the document by simply selecting the More | Save Document option.

You may visit a few samples that I made using this product:

• Sample 1


• Sample 2


• Sample 3

What to expect in the future

Scribd already teams up with O Reilly Media to print its books and ebooks in the future. Scribd store offer publisher 80% of revenue from the suggested price compared to Amazon where it only gets 35%.

Everyday manuals, manuscript and other presentation materials are easily converted into Scribd ebooks. Big publishers may forge partnerships to Scribd to upload few of the chapters of their upcoming books and buyers can scan it before buying. In the end, publishers may print only books that are high in demand thus saving a lot of trees on reference materials that has no demand at all.

You can check Scribd here.