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February 6, 2018By Michael Cader

Scribd Returns to (Mostly) Unlimited Subscriptions, Now That They Are “More Profitable Than We Wanted”

February 6, 2018By Michael Cader

Subscription service Scribd has resumed providing unlimited access to their catalog of books, audiobooks and other materials to most participants, while curtailing the benefits for the  “small fraction of readers who read a high-volume of books,” according to ceo Trip Adler. After launching with unlimited reading of ebooks in 2014, and adding unlimited access to audiobooks later that year, the company had cut back to one audiobook per month in mid-2015 and curtailed unlimited reading in early 2016, to help “achieve long-term sustainability.” Adler says, “We decided to go back to unlimited because it works better in terms of providing a […]

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