The description of Scribd as the YouTube for documents is about right. Many of us will be used to sites such as FanFiction but Scribd aims to create the world's largest open library of documents.
It was launched in 2006 and now has around 140,000 documents in its database. A browse of the groups contained within Scribd shows the extent of the collections with some very interesting vintage print adverts, material on Wen 2.0 and even some open text books. Trouble is that, as you might guess the adult section contains the most resources , some 17,000 making it a difficult resource to see used in schools.
Scribd has some materials from NASA and from Project Guttenburg plus a number of books that are still covered by copyright so its not exactly an example of acceptable practive when trying to convey to young people the need to respect the ownership of written work.
Perhaps the idea is a good one but it is not something that I could see being used in classrooms.
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