Scribd /ˈskrɪbd/ is a digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one

million titles.[2][3][4][5] Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform.[6]
Founded in 2007 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam, and headquartered in San
Francisco, California, the company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Charles River
Ventures, and Redpoint Ventures.[7] Scribd's e-book subscription service is available
on Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, as well as the Kindle Fire, Nook, and personal
computers. Subscribers can access unlimited books a month[8] from 1,000 publishers,
including Bloomsbury, Harlequin, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lonely
Planet, Macmillan, Perseus Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, and Workman.[9][10]
Scribd has 80 million users, and has been referred to as "the Netflix for books".[11][12][13]

Scribd began as a site to host and share documents.[12] While at Harvard, Trip Adler was inspired to
start Scribd after learning about the lengthy process required to publish academic papers.[14] His
father, a doctor at Stanford, was told it would take 18 months to have his medical research
published.[14] Adler wanted to create a simple way to publish and share written content online.[15] He
co-founded Scribd with Jared Friedman and attended the inaugural class of Y Combinator in the
summer of 2006.[16] There, Scribd received its initial $120,000 in seed funding and then launched in a
San Francisco apartment in March 2007.[6]
Scribd was called "the YouTube for documents", allowing anyone to self-publish on the site using its
document reader.[14] The document reader turns PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints into Web
documents that can be shared on any website that allows embeds.[17] In its first year, Scribd grew
rapidly to 23.5 million visitors as of November 2008.[18] It also ranked as one of the top 20 social
media sites according to Comscore.[18]
In June 2009, Scribd launched the Scribd Store, enabling writers to easily upload and sell digital
copies of their work online.[19] That same month, the site partnered with Simon & Schuster to sell e-
books on Scribd.[20] The deal made digital editions of 5,000 titles available for purchase on Scribd,
including books from bestselling authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, and Mary Higgins Clark.[21]
In October 2009, Scribd launched its branded reader for media companies including The New York
Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch,
and MediaBistro.[17] ProQuest began publishing dissertations and theses on Scribd in December
2009.[22] In August 2010, many notable documents hosted on Scribd began to go viral, including the
California Proposition 8 ruling, which received over 100,000 views in about 24 minutes, and HP's
lawsuit against Mark Hurd's move to Oracle.[23][24]
Like any other IDE, it includes a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code
completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops,
and LINQ queries.[19]IntelliSense is supported for the included languages, as well as
for XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript when developing web sites and web
applications.[20][21]Autocomplete suggestions appear in a modeless list box over the code editor
window, in proximity of the editing cursor. In Visual Studio 2008 onwards, it can be made temporarily
semi-transparent to see the code obstructed by it.[19] The code editor is used for all supported
languages.
The Visual Studio code editor also supports setting bookmarks in code for quick navigation. Other
navigational aids include collapsing code blocks and incremental search, in addition to normal text
search and regex search.[22] The code editor also includes a multi-item clipboard and a task
list.[22] The code editor supports code snippets, which are saved templates for repetitive code and
can be inserted into code and customized for the project being worked on. A management tool for
code snippets is built in as well. These tools are surfaced as floating windows which can be set to
automatically hide when unused or docked to the side of the screen. The Visual Studio code editor
also supports code refactoringincluding parameter reordering, variable and method
renaming, interface extraction, and encapsulation of class members inside properties, among others.
Visual Studio features background compilation (also called incremental compilation).[23][24] As code is
being written, Visual Studio compiles it in the background in order to provide feedback about syntax
and compilation errors, which are flagged with a red wavy underline. Warnings are marked with a
green underline. Background compilation does not generate executable code, since it requires a
different compiler than the one used to generate executable code.[25] Background compilation was
initially introduced with Microsoft Visual Basic, but has now been expanded for all included
languages.[24]