{"id":780,"date":"2008-04-23T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T14:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=780"},"modified":"2008-04-23T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T14:12:34","slug":"scribdcom-the-youtube-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/scribdcom-the-youtube-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribd.com &#8211; The YouTube of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out scribd.com has something big in their hands:<br \/>\n &#8211; Flash based document viewer (for any document format)<br \/>\n &#8211; Unlimited uploads<\/p>\n<p>The result, what I call a &#8220;YouTube of Books&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Just check this out, and see why Amazon has a little bit of market to loose (those who don&#8217;t really care about reading books on screen, and having the ability to search a book in seconds&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Look for yourself<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><script>document.write('<noscript>');<\/script><\/div>\n<p>\t<object codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" id=\"embedded_flash_2608067_uj4t2_object\" name=\"embedded_flash_2608067_uj4t2_object\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" align=\"middle\"\theight=\"500\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\"\tvalue=\"http:\/\/documents.scribd.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=2608067&#038;access_key=key-np8wh8bi24ecisf2f87&#038;page=&#038;version=1\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><param name=\"play\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"loop\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showall\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"devicefont\" value=\"false\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"menu\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"salign\" value=\"\"><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none\">\t<\/noscript>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src='http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/view.js'><\/script><\/div>\n<div id='embedded_flash_2608067_uj4t2' style=\"width:100%;height:100%\"><span style=\"display:none\">Read this doc on Scribd: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/2608067\/Python-Cookbook\">Python Cookbook<\/a><\/span>\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \tvar scribd_doc = new scribd.Document(2608067, 'key-np8wh8bi24ecisf2f87'); \t\t\t\t\t\tscribd_doc.write('embedded_flash_2608067_uj4t2');<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I foresee these guys being bought by Google sometime within the next two years, they certainly provide with the vision of Google, that of organizing information, and what not, and they have the same copyright issues as YouTube did, something which didn&#8217;t stop google from acquiring them at the time.<\/p>\n<p>All we need now, is to be able to use that Scribd viewer with PDFs hosted anywhere, I would love to have that document viewer installed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybloop.com\">MyBloop.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out scribd.com has something big in their hands: &#8211; Flash based document viewer (for any document format) &#8211; Unlimited uploads The result, what I call a &#8220;YouTube of Books&#8221;. 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