Scribd , the YouTube for print , is work on a novel way to get e - book of account onto your Kindle without buying them from Amazon .
Right now , to get one of the tens of zillion of Scribd document has — volume , newspaper publisher , and other content — off the vane and into a Kindle , a exploiter has to email the written document to his or her Kindle email address .
Trip Adler , the company ’s chief operating officer and founder recount us it will be a “ unlined ” experience next year .
Trip could n’t tell us if his plan was part of an official Scribd - Amazon partnership or not . He just said , “ I can tell you that we talk to Amazon a band . ”
Will Scribd - To - Kindle be a threat to Amazon ?
For now , Scribd ’s memory is no threat to Amazon . It ’s a pocket-sized selection more heavily favoring obscure documents Amazon does n’t trade . Down the route , it stage a potential threat .
That ’s because Scribd is restfully developing a strong due east - book shopfront to equal its stash of user generated content .
This week Scribd denote that John Wiley and Sons would be selling Word of God through Scribd ’s store . That gives Scribd access to the “ For Dummies ” serial publication , as well as “ Frommer ’s ” travel pathfinder . It already had Simon and Schuster on board , along with other prominent publishers .
If Scribd can put its books on the Kindle , this turn should only grow , especially since it offers publishers a better business lot than Amazon .
Amazonreportedly offersa 50/50 sale split . Scribd only keeps 20 % and allows publishers to set up their own price .
Is this a Hail Mary for Scribd ?
No . Regardless of what happens , Scribd will keep chugging along . It project on rolling out mobile applications next class for the iPhone and Android .
Adler decline to give us a tax revenue number , but he tell the company was profitable in the 2nd after part this yr , but decided to hire more employee to focus on growing . It has about 40 employees .
Our back of the envelop computing put revenue in the range of $ 7 to $ 10 million . Adler says tax income is growing 10 - 12 % month over calendar month .
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