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scribd is an excellent ralling point for genuine online publishers who wish to share their experiences with others as well as learn new things in their chosen fields themselves. I belive Scribd will continue to grow as they offer oportunities to their numerous members and visitors. Thanks Benedict

How do you cite information on this website? Anybody hear of plagiarism. Seriously, I'm a college student and this is not acceptable.

I am appalled at all the copyrighted material that has been uploaded to Scribd. When is someone going to wake up and SUE THEM? There are entire books up and rightsholders are getting RIPPED OFF by Scribd and its users.

Even Obama used it to publish his election documents! See the dutch article on www.docufacts.nl: http://www.docufacts.nl/2952/crossmedia-aanpak-cruciaal-voor-verkiezing-barack-obama/

Absolutely true- Scribd is wholesale theft depriving authors of their earned income. It's worse than Youtube, because it reproduces written content in it's absolute purest form- and there is an unending quantity of it that Scribd clearly makes no attempt to stop. It is CEOs getting rich off of the written work of authors. It encourages theft by having almost no oversight of this abuse, and it is flooded with copyrighted material. Absolutely disgusting in the worst possible way.

scribd is the best site for books thank you and i am member of scribd

Scribd is good, it's a great place to share and find ebooks, but can it continue to thrive and survive those potentical copyright infringement charges? it's really not that optimistic.

Just like with youtube, its the copyrighted stuff that is brining in the traffic. People just want to get their Harry Potter and DAVinci code etc for free. All the other documents are crap that no-one cares about.

Not sure what the previous reviewers are ranting about. Scribd is just a good place to find ebook / pdf report type documents, and like any other social sharing site, it is of course packed with crap. But it self organizes nicely and it's going to continue to grow as a nice vertical search and from the publisher side a good way to get content out there for free.

Though I had not intended to write a response to the exhortation presented in the message above, I found a good reason a few links down as I was searching the word "Scribd". This is a webpage entitled: "Top 100 Tools: Scribd." The address of this page is: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/scribd.html The reasoning is that Scribd is used by many individuals who have found some sense of worth in the English language, if only an economical one, and have therefore written their exercises in English and uploaded them into Scribd in order to access them a few minutes later in their computer-generated English-accented voice. In short, Scribd may be subconsciously launching a campaign of ethnic cleansing against foreign learners. Or, maybe--just maybe--they may have decided to be more competitive in the domestic American market by attracting more Americans by making it smell as it were like burgers, beer and phallic All-American bratwursts rather than garlic-like Italians, or hookah Arabs and Turks, or kidney-pie Brits.

Since today and without any advance warning they have started to destroy thousands and thousands of documents they deem are an infringement to the copyrights. The only problem is that 90% of all documents like in any other sharing environment is copyrighted stuff somewhere and so they are shooting themselves in the foot. Not only is their searchengine (that is the reason it was down the last days - hypocrites) now polluted with thousands of bad links - as are the searchengines and thousands of blogs - but I don't think the power users that they have punished - and sometimes were responsable for some valuable feedback will probably just leave the site for the Titanic it has become. Working intensively on and with scribd the last 6 months i have come to the following conclusions First there aren't that many documents that are being uploaded in english every day (take browse - most recent and english and you will see a few a day - for a worldwide internetservice) Secondly the service is being overtaken by spammers (using the services in commentspam with an iframe), stupid docs about the most stupid subjects, sex and pics without end. In the beginning it used to be a document service that wanted to become the babel of the internet. Thirdly they still don't have the infrastructure needed to host such a service because their statistics (gimmicks in jave etc) aren't active again and those were a strain on the service. They also have more frequently hic up pages coming up. Fourth their search engine for related documents is just a big joke. Fifth the team suck even if they are millionaires now these guys don't understand that you make traffic by a few people uploading masses of stuff that other people want to see and let known around them. maybe they really want to be a pornservice anyway