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Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited

Posted by timothy on from the demi-perfect-and-quasi-eterrnal dept.

Robotech_Master writes: Subscription service Scribd has announced that it will change its unlimited e-book and audiobook-reading plan to a hybrid limited/unlimited model starting next month. It will offer a rotating selection of thousands of titles for unlimited reading, plus up to 3 books and 1 audiobook per month from the entire Scribd catalog. The particularly interesting thing to come out of this is that only 3% of Scribd's subscribers actually read more than 3 books per month--so the effect for the other 97% will actually be to give them access to a wider selection of titles.

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  1. Semi-unlimited? by ITRambo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is no such thing. Unlimited means no limit. Anything less is limited. Period. Such marketing BS.

  2. Lol by cfalcon · · Score: 2

    > hybrid limited/unlimited

    The word for that is "limited". If I can find a limit, it's "limited". It's not "hybrid limited/unlimited". That's silly.

  3. Words by sexconker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The word they're looking for is "limited".

  4. ick by fluffernutter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't really get Scribd's business model. The only time I end up there is through Google results, and they try to make me pay for something that the next Google result has for free. Scribd and Experts Exchange could possibly be the two most annoying sites on the internet for that.

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  5. piss on scribd by SkunkPussy · · Score: 2

    They take public domain documents then put them behind a wall where you can't download or print them unless you sign up or subscribe.

    Its complete bullshit.

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