Scribd traffic down 48 percent since June: Seasonal change, less pirated stuff, or other reason?
“Scribd, the so-called ‘YouTube for documents’ that’s recently also become an Ebook store, has been seeing a major drop in traffic over the last two months.” – Tech Crunch. Click on graph for more detail.
Related: Techmeme roundup.
Also of interest: The AP on legal free e-books to promote authors’ titles (via MobileRead). While the AP call this “the latest craze,” this is really old news—especially for series-related titles in the SF community.
Technorati Tags: free e-books
August 8th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Scribd say they’re doing a copyright clean-out and cutting back on SEO (Why?) – even so, I’d be a little worried with such a trend.
August 9th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I suspect the problem is that their site is complete garbage. The last time I was there, you couldn’t search by author, and stuff either took forever to display or didn’t display properly.