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Scribd Inc. (pronounced / ˈ s k r ɪ b d /) operates three primary platforms: Scribd, Everand, and SlideShare. Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 195 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and sheet music.
A.nnotate: a web service which views PDF documents as HTML in the browser, with annotation features. Docstoc: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online. Issuu: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online. Google Docs: a web service which views PDF documents as PNG images in the browser.
SlideShare is an American hosting service, now owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, or PDF format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on mobile devices or embedded on other sites.
Such services typically provide access to full text and full-text search, but also metadata about items for which no full text is available. This list focuses on general-purpose services; OpenDOAR can be used to find thousands of open-access repositories. The table is sorted by the number of works for which full-text is made available.
An owner password can easily be removed by software, including some free online services. [33] Thus, the use restrictions that a document author places on a PDF document are not secure, and cannot be assured once the file is distributed; this warning is displayed when applying such restrictions using Adobe Acrobat software to create or edit PDF ...
In June 2009, Scribd launched Scribd Store, [11] and shortly thereafter closed a deal with Simon & Schuster to sell ebooks on Scribd. [12] In 2012, the company became profitable. [13] In October 2013, Scribd launched a subscription ebook service, and signed a deal with HarperCollins to make their backlist books available on Scribd.
PDF is a standard for encoding documents in an "as printed" form that is portable between systems. However, the suitability of a PDF file for archival preservation depends on options chosen when the PDF is created: most notably, whether to embed the necessary fonts for rendering the document; whether to use encryption; and whether to preserve additional information from the original document ...
Free and open-source software, which is often referred to as open source software and free software, is a maturing technology with companies using them to provide services and technology to both end-users and technical consumers. The ease of dissemination increases modularity, which allows for smaller groups to contribute to projects as well as ...