'Convert Your Paper to iPaper' Program Lets Users Mail in Paper Documents to Be Scanned and Saved as iPaper; Anything From Love Letters to Recipes Can be Shared with Family and Friends on the Web for Free
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Scribd, the established leader in document sharing and publishing on the Web with 16 million unique monthly visitors, today announced "Convert Your Paper to iPaper," a new initiative that allows anyone to mail physical paper documents to Scribd to be scanned and saved on Scribd's website using Scribd's iPaper format. This program is open to everyone and is completely free of charge.
Scribd's mission is to unlock the world's information by making it really easy for people to share any kind of document content online. "Convert Your Paper to iPaper" makes it even easier for people without scanners or even Internet access to publish on the Web. Your favorite recipes, newspaper articles or any print content can now be digitized and preserved flawlessly on the Internet. Scribd is making it easier than ever to share your documents with friends and family.
To participate, just send a brief description of the type and quantity of your documents to paper@scribd.com. A Scribd representative will reply shortly with further instructions for how and where to mail the documents. Scribd will have the content scanned and published on Scribd.com to be easily shared with anyone. Include your Scribd username along with your paper so that your content will be published in your account. If you are not a Scribd user, include your email address, and Scribd will email you a link to your published content.
"We realize not everyone is going to have the time and resources to scan paper documents, or maybe some just didn't realize it was an option," said Trip Adler, CEO and co-founder of Scribd. "People have been writing on paper for thousands of years, but only saving files in Word or PDF for 20, and we don't want to ignore all that content. It occurred to us that if we did the heavy lifting on the scanning people would be more willing to participate and we could unlock so much quality content."
Since launching one year ago, Scribd has built the largest document-sharing website on the Internet. In that time they have developed iPaper, a document viewer built for the Web, and provided customized services and a first-in-the-industry copyright protection system for professional and high volume publishers. Until now, however, there hadn't been focused efforts to bring analog content online. Scribd sees this market as an important source of interesting, quality content.
For more information about Scribd and how to have your paper documents preserved and published online, visit http://www.scribd.com/paper.
About Scribd
Scribd is the leader in online document sharing and publishing. It was founded in 2006 by then-Harvard students Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, and their friend Tikhon Bernstam, when they couldn't find a way to publish the documents they wrote for school on the Web. Scribd has since grown to service over 16 million unique visitors per month and has the largest document-sharing community on the Internet. Documents hosted on the site are being viewed and embedded across the Internet in every corner of the globe. Scribd is funded by Y Combinator, The Kinsey Hills Group and Redpoint Ventures. For more information about Scribd, visit http://www.scribd.com/.
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