Scribd Coming Soon to a Kindle Near You!

A few days ago I told you about several alternative sources for eBooks on your Kindle (or nook, or Sony Reader, etc.) Well, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that soon you can add Scribd to that list too!

Scribd is very similar to Feedbooks and Smashwords, but with a focus on the social/sharing aspect. You can upload any kind of document and post it for public consumption. From their website:

Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents. On Scribd, you can quickly and easily turn nearly any file—including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel—into a Web document and share it with the world.

* Create a profile – share your work, manage documents, create reading lists, rate and more
* Publish instantly – upload your college thesis, presentation or screenplay and immediately share with others
* Build a community – subscribe to people, publishers and companies with similar interests
* Discover new works – browse interesting content in creative writing, children’s books, puzzles & games and more

Within the next month, Scribd is looking to add a “send to Kindle/nook/iPhone/other mobile device” button. Not only is their content going to be compatible with multiple formats, but it sounds like they will be leveraging smartphones and connected ebook readers to wirelessly transfer the data. This could be huge for the education and corporate markets. Being able to upload a presentation or article to Scribd, and then have anyone who needs it be able to send to their device of choice in their format of choice takes the headache out of emailing a file that may not be readable by everyone. It might actually help ebook readers and tablet devices break into universities; if they do not need to support converting files into compatible formats and can offload the work to Scribd, it makes it that much easier to mandate use of electronic materials.

Of course, all this is at least a month away, but it still bodes well for ebooks (and e-docs, etc). Do you use Scribd? Would you use it (or use it more) if you could easily send content to your favorite device? Share below!

Via Wall Street Journal (membership may be required)

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Books and eBooks, eReaders