Scribd is a cool free web service where you can store,publish and share any documents that can be embdeddable into your website or blog as a new flash widget called ipaper.

Scribd makes your documents or ebooks look almost the same as a physical publication but in a browser. That means, your visitors can view the document as 3D flippable book or presentation or slide mode. They can zoom pages or jump to any specific page by clicking the thumbnail image of the page. They can also search through the document at lightning speed and even print the document.

See the demo here.

To be precise, Scribd ipaper is for documents like youtube for videos.

Other interesting features:

1. You can upload unlimited documents(unlimited storage) either from desktop or entering the URL of the file or copy-paste the entire document. Scribd supports microsoft office doucments except office 2007,all open office documents and PDF.

2. You can either make the document public or private. Incase you make the document public

a) Your documents will be indexed by search engines like google,yahoo,MSN.,

b) Visitors can download your documents in original format or pdf format or text format.

c) Visitors can share the document via email or social networksing sites like facebook etc.,

d) You can see the statistics like number of visitors viewed your documents,comments etc.,

3. Scribd allows web publishers to monitize their ipapers (documents) embedded in their webiste or blog via serving google adsense. For more info, refer monitize.

4. Scribd provides a simple QuickSwitch mode for publishers- you copy-paste a block of code in your web page and all documents mentioned in your blog or website will be auto-converted into iPaper format without you having to upload files manually. This mode will also replaces the document links in your web pages with an embedded document player.

5. You can explore and download public documents in all catagaries like Culture,Science,Computer,Fashion etc.,

Scribd is a perfect place to publish and share your ebooks,illustrations,presentations,photos or any creative works.Registration is required but it takes only a minute to get into your account.

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