Thursday, March 15, 2007

A kind of YouTube for e-books

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A kind of YouTube for e-books, Scribd lets you view documents

online and share your own documents with the world.You can upload

one or more documents without even signing up. Scribd supports

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. It features

an embedded viewer that lets you read documents online, so there's

no need to download anything. However, you can download documents

in a variety of formats; print them; view them full-screen; and even

hear them read aloud. If you do sign up, you can see various analytics

about your documents, such as how many people read them and from

what locations.This thing is seriously cool, a great way to find and share

information. I'm concerned that copyright violations could cause

it trouble (witness YouTube), but I suspect Scribd will be with us for

a long time to come. — Rick Broida


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