Scribd

Scribd is a digital subscription service for readers that gives you instant access to millions of bestselling eBooks, audiobooks, magazines, articles, podcasts, sheet music, and snapshots, and over 125,000,000 documents shared by Scribd’s community of users for $9.99/month when you subscribe. …

An analysis of Scribd’s user flow and design patterns — Scribd is an ebook and audiobook subscription service offering thousands of titles for users to enjoy. The main task for users such as myself is to read/listen to a book, magazine, etc. The app makes it easy to find options that match users’ interests. …

Scribd was a treasure trove of documents. And I hate it. It existed way back in 2007, when the internet was just Google the search engine plus PHP forums and not these walled gardens you call social media platforms. It was the first site that appears when you look up how to host documents and share them. Yet it was a…

This is the final part of our four-part series on Lesson’s Learned from Standing up to Friendly Fraud featuring trust & safety experts at Getaround and Scribd. Check out part one, part two and part three. Convincing Leadership on the Value of New Tech Fighting fraud requires both defense and offense. But until there’s an attack, it can…

This is part three in our four-part series on Lesson’s Learned from Standing up to Friendly Fraud featuring trust & safety experts at Getaround and Scribd. Check out part one and part two. Without technology it’s difficult for a growing business to fight all of its chargebacks. Not only does…

How insights from data were used to help build the taxonomy and our approach to assign categories to the user-uploaded documents. — Scribd offers a variety of publisher and user-uploaded content to our users and while the publisher content is rich in metadata, user-uploaded content typically is not. Documents uploaded by the users have varied subjects and content types which can make it challenging to link them together. One way to connect…

Using NLP to perform information extraction on our text-heavy documents through Keyphrases and Entities — This is part 2 in a series of blog posts describing a multi-component machine learning system we built to extract metadata from our documents in order to enrich downstream discovery models. In this post, we present the challenges and limitations we faced and the solutions we came up with when…

Scribd has one of the largest ebook collections out there and not surprisingly, also offers documents, magazines, audiobooks, sheet music, court filings and more (I have no idea why anyone would want to read court filings BUT it’s there). …

People across the globe are using the digital content platform more than ever due to this COIVD-19 pandemic situation. More than 22.5% of companies globally are seeing their subscription growth rate accelerated by more than 3X according to Zuora. Along with other digital content platforms such as OTT video streaming…