The lack of protection assures that we move in other directions. The thieves were all US firms with a business model that perpetrates theft.

It is time for a change. I thought about litigating and still might. My brother is a United States Senator and I will be spending some time researching this by speaking and working with the law firms that have already litigated against scribd.com and others. So that a law can be crafted that will shut down all of these sites and collect compensation from those that have only served to stifle research by theft….For those that supported my work…thank you for that…..

But it shared the fate of every online service, software company or what have you out there that gets too big for its own head:

While “page clicks” or “reads” may be impressive numbers, they don’t really indicate genuine interest, such as a download would imply, and since Scribd removed the download stats for an individual document, they’re as good as saying,
“What the f… do we care whether anybody actually READS your document. We just assume you’re dumb enough to go gaga about our big numbers…”

Scribd was hot. Once upon a time. Now it will never be the same today that it was yesterday because they just keep from fiddling with it in order to make it “better” (for them).

That’s great, cause if there’s one thing that my Web browser needed, it’s a way to display documents right inside it. I can’t believe Sir Berners-Lee left that feature out of the Web… what an oversight!

I would love to hear what you think about Scridb’s revenue model?
Surely they can’t be keeping investors happy through advertising revenue alone!

I’m currently planning a similar (not the same as) web only business that will generate real cash, not just hits.

So does any know the answer?

Docstoc seems to forget that many people also read books/novels for leisure, and that the market for people like me who can’t seem to get enough of reading novels, is quite large (Borders and Barnes and Nobles aren’t doing bad). Once they are able to start providing more and have less little to no limits, then I might find the site remotely interesting.