Scribd Takes On Amazon's Audible With All-You-Can-Listen Audiobooks

The subscription service is adding 30,000 recorded books to the half-million ebooks it already offers.Thirteen months ago, San Francisco startup Scribd launched a service which aims to do for books what Netflix does for movies and TV shows. It offers a large-but-not-utterly-comprehensive collection of ebooks, readable on iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and the web, for one fee of $8.99 per month. If you're looking for a specific book, you might or might not find it. But if you're open to discovering ones you didn't know you might find interesting, you'll never be short on reading material.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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