Kobo Plus vs Scribd
July 05, 2025 | Author: Maria Lin
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Ebook subscription service for Kobo owners but only in a few selected countries (USA, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Portugal). It costs $10 per month. The company has also launched the Kobo Elipsa 2E e-reader with a 10.3-inch, glare-free e-ink touchscreen.
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Scribd is the world's largest digital library, where readers can discover books and written works of all kinds on the Web or any mobile device and publishers and authors can find a voracious audience for their work. Launched in March of 2007 and based in San Francisco California, more than 40 million books and documents have been contributed to Scribd by the community. Scribd content reaches and audience of 80 million people around the world every month.
Kobo Plus vs Scribd in our news:
2015. Scribd acquired social reading app Librify
Ebook subscription startup Scribd has acquired Librify, a social reading app, the companies announced today. In a brief press release, Scribd claims that Librify’s “emphasis on the social reading experience” made the acquisition worthwhile. The news comes at a competitive time for the publishing industry, as Amazon, Oyster and others vie to be the ultimate Netflix for books — all while offering remarkably similar products. Scribd intends to integrate the start-up’s social features to enhance its own platform with a more robust social e-reading experience. “We appreciate Librify’s focus on the social reading experience and the impressive work they’ve done within reading communities,” Scribd co-founder and CEO Trip Adler said in a statement today. “This acquisition is a natural extension of the existing Scribd product and something we and our readers, have been eager to explore further.”
2013. Scribd and Oyster sing more book publishers
Competing ebook subscription services Oyster and Scribd have secured agreements with new publishers to expand their offerings. Oyster has teamed up with Perseus. While Oyster did not disclose the exact number of titles Perseus will be distributing through its service, notable additions include Friday Night Lights, Masters of Sex and Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, all available to subscribers for $9.95 a month. Meanwhile, Scribd has reached an agreement with self-published ebook distributor Smashwords, which will more than triple Scribd’s existing catalog. Smashwords' titles will increase the number of ebooks available through an $8.99 monthly subscription to over 325,000. These titles will also be offered for individual purchase on the broader Scribd platform. It’s worth noting that Oyster also has a partnership with Smashwords. Currently, Oyster and Scribd appear to have very similar, if not entirely overlapping, catalogs.
