Based in California, Scribd is an online subscription reading service and digital library with over one million titles, including audiobooks and ebooks. It also has over 50 million documents on its open publishing platform. Scribd’s e-book subscription service is available on Kindle, Nook, Android, and iOS platforms. With 80 million users and featuring content from 1,000 publishers, Scribd has been referred to as “the Netflix for books.”
Alternatives to Scribd
LibraryThing
Company: LibraryThing, LLC | Founder: Tim Spalding | CEO: Tim Spalding | Since: 2005
LibraryThing is a social website that enables its users to catalog their books and is used by libraries, authors and publishers alike. Through LibraryThing’s site, users can share book catalogs as well as book metadata. The website was launched in…
Library Genesis
Company: Library Genesis
Library Genesis is an online search engine for published materials on a variety of topics. This is a free site and it accepts content for sharing. Donations are also welcome. In 2015, Library Genesis was embroiled in a legal issue…
Mobilism
Company: Mobilism.org
Mobilism is an online book and app sharing platform. You can download books, audio books, magazines, comics, etc. and Android and iOS games and apps for free. You don’t have to register in order to download content. To register, one…
Final edit: Jan Willem Beumer, editor-in-chief of Mindbogglingmedia