It's Still Very Early, But Scribd Looks Like A Winner(techcrunch.com)
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It's Still Very Early, But Scribd Looks Like A Winner
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/25/scribd-growing-like-youtube/
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Also, I'm not sure how thrilled the seduction community and NLP community will be that all of their books are now online. I don't normally advocate piracy, but I think this is a really unique opportunity for grokking Net Natives circa 2007.
(Net Natives as used by Fred Wilson: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/06/net_natives.html)
update: When I say it's a unique opportunity for grokking net natives, I mean this in the same sense as when Paul Kedrosky blogged that the Amazon top 100 products list is more telling than the Ph.D. dissertation of the average would-be historian.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/12/27/top_sellers_at.html
(Net Natives as used by Fred Wilson: http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/06/net_natives.html)
update: When I say it's a unique opportunity for grokking net natives, I mean this in the same sense as when Paul Kedrosky blogged that the Amazon top 100 products list is more telling than the Ph.D. dissertation of the average would-be historian.
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/12/27/top_sellers_at.html
Interesting. Just a point of reference:
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4796
http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=4796
So, what was their financial business model again?
A quick look at the National Adult Literacy Survey shows the potential market is smaller than that of YouTube, but in some ways the stickiness of the eyeballs you do have is more important than the total eyeballs.