If you've got some great original work, written today, yesterday or even ten years ago, and think the rest of the world would benefit from reading it, but don't have the time or money to publish, try Scribd.com. Scribd.com is a free online document publishing site that makes it easy to share your work with the rest of the world with a simple upload. In 2006 Trip Adler and Jared Friedman, Inspired by their desire to publish school papers online, launched their idea to create a place where people could share their writings with the rest of the world.
Using Scribd.com, readers can publish all sorts of writings from publications, articles, poems, presentations and more, as long as it is their original work.
Posters can submit their documents in various formats like word files, PDFs, TXT, PowerPoint, Excel or LIT files. Scribd does state that they do not endorse any documents containing hate speech and any content considered illegal in the United States. Similar to Wikipedia, Scribd users are watchdogs for content violations. Users may flag content that is suspect for Scribd to investigate and or remove from the site.
I find Scribd another great example of Web 2.0 in practice, where users connect with each other and share information. If you're looking for some exposure to your writings, Scribd.com is definitely worth a posting.For more information and questions about Scribd, visit their FAQ page.
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