Scribd showed last year that it’s moving away from its PDF roots by transforming into a subscription based service for news. It teamed up with key publications for this and the company is now extending its focus in this area. There’s a new subscription plan for Scribd which includes access to the digital version of The New York Times.
The NYT was part of its news push last year as well. Scribd initially teamed up with the likes of The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, NPR, The Guardian, and others to offer an all-you-can-read subscription service.
Its new bundle is focused on the NYT, though. New users who sign up for this plan will get access to Scribd and a digital subscription to The New York Times for $12.99 per month. This offers a considerable discount compared to directly subscribing to NYT digital which costs $15.99 standalone.
Once Scribd users sign up and pay for the subscription through the service, they will get separate logins and will thus be able to access the entire Times’ website and app in addition to all of the ebooks, audiobooks, comic books, etc on Scribd. This sounds like a pretty good deal for those who have been meaning to purchase a subscription to one of the most respectable newspaper in the industry.
Filed in .. Source: literally.scribd