Scribd Publisher Overview
The Scribd Platform API gives you unprecedented flexibility for publishing rich documents on the web. The platform is built around our flagship iPaper document viewer, and extends iPaper's functionality with automation, monitization, and a broad pallet of tools for integrating iPaper support into your website and web applications.
Why should you adopt iPaper and the Scribd Platform?
Simplicity, Speed, and Portability
iPaper is designed to be fast, light, and easy to use. iPaper fully integrates into your website and offers a fluid browsing experience, free from downloads and other interruptions that distract viewers away from your site. We've kept iPaper focused the on quality presentation of documents, and stripped it of superfluous features that diminish overall performance. The result - 1/1000th the size of Adobe Reader - is a streamlined document viewing experience that works seamlessly across all major operating systems and web browsers.
Easy to Integrate
Switching to iPaper is free and takes just a few minutes for most users. We offer options for a wide range of integration requirements ranging from low-volume to high-volume/high-frequency. In addition, we offer specialized options for a broad spectrum of users, from document owners with no programming experience, to highly-experienced website/application developers. Check out the documentation to learn more.
Increase Your Traffic
iPaper brings premium content to your website. What was once a boring PDF download link is now an interactive, searchable document. iPaper's integrated social features encourage users to share your documents with their friends, and iPaper's optional search engine optimization (SEO) features increase your documents' visibility to major search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Monetize Your Documents
Documents on your website are monetization opportunity. You run ads on your web pages, why not your documents? iPaper integrates text-based Google AdSense ads into your documents in a way that is unobtrusive and attractive. The ads in your documents are targeted based on the content of your documents. Click here to see an example document with ads.
Enhanced Security
Many document formats are woefully unsecure. They are susceptible to numerous viruses and are easily posted on filesharing networks. Some formats employ heavy digital rights management (DRM) to alleviate this problem, but DRM is clumsy and often causes more problems then it solves. iPaper takes a different approach. iPaper documents are streamed from a secure server; there are no files to download, upload, or email. And because iPaper documents are embedded in your webpages, they gracefully inherit your website's existing security system.
Include Your Documents in Scribd's Library
In addition to displaying documents on your website, you can choose to include your iPaper documents in Scribd's library. This is a great way to expose your content to nearly 20 million monthly visitors. Members of Scribd's Qualified Publishers Program (QPP) receive additional support for branding document pages, links back to website, and shared advertising revenue.
