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Scribd Goes Mobile,Launches new "Send-to-Device" feature for millions of

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Scribd Goes Mobile, Launches new "Send-to-Device" feature

for millions of docs

Feburary 24, 2010

The number of "reading-enabled" devices launching every week is enough to make your head spin.

That's why Scribd is making it easy to access content on whatever mobile gadget you have (e-readeror smartphone) with our new "Send to Device" feature.

With a click of a button, you can access Scribd's entertaining and informative content on the fly. Thereare more than 10M mobile-enabled written works at your fingertips, from research to recipes. You canalso send your own docs to your device -- MS Word files, PowerPoints, PDFs -- making your e-readermore useful and your smartphone more like an e-reader.

"Send-to-device" works for free and for-purchase books and chapters from major publishers likeO'Reilly Media and Lonely Planet. Now when you buy or read something on Scribd, try sending it toyour mobile device by clicking the "Mobile" button at the top of the document. Here's a list of mobile-ready Scribd docs you can try sending.

For publishers and authors, this means getting written content into the hands of the most consumerspossible. There will be millions of e-readers and there are billions of smartphones. If you're a Scribduploader and want to make your docs available via "send-to-device," set them DRM-free and enabledownloads.

Starting in March, Scribd will also start rolling out a series of mobile applications tailored especially tothe Android and iPhone operating systems to provide a richer search, browsing and socialexperience.Never before has reading on-the-go been so easy.

-The Scribd Team

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