DocStoc & Scribd Start the Document Wars

Filed in archive Cloud Computing on May 23, 2009

I haven't paid this much attention until recently, but documents may soon be big business on the web...

The two main competitors in the new document wars are DocStoc and Scribd. Both sites are document sharing services that allow you top upload a document for other people to view. They have graduattly taken on social overtones, similar to social bookmarking sites Digg and Delicious.

Scribd recently moved to monitize its service by selling documents (see Yahoo! Tech) and now DocStoc is playing catch up. It may end up being good for bloggers, according to the Blog Herald, at least.

Whether it's some historical documents from your small town or the grad school paper you thought about publishing, you suddenly have to wonder what your documents might be worth on the web. Scribd and DocStoc aim to find out, and they hope it's a lot.

Some links:

• DocStoc Launches Document Collections - from TechCrunch


• Scribd Store: YouTube for Documents Becomes iTunes for Documents - Mashable


• Social Publishing Site Scribd Adds E-Commerce; 80 Percent Revenues To Publishers - paidContent.org


• DocCash: Upload Documents, Download Dollars - TechCrunch

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