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📚 As our readers build their fall reading lists, Everand and Fable took a look at the books they couldn’t put down the last few months, and the topics they couldn’t stop talking about. The takeaways? Kathryn Stockett’s long-awaited literary comeback soared to the head of the pack. Screen adaptations sent readers back to the source. Beloved series found new life in audio. And the most common book club conversations have been about when it’s okay to DNF. All this and much more in our Everand and Fable Q3 Reader Report: https://lnkd.in/gEgKP3qj

What does trust look like once everyone has the same AI? What makes flexibility hold up over years, not quarters? How do you build reputation before anyone ever visits your site? Three of our leaders at Scribd, Inc. took on those questions this month. Tony, Grimminck, CEO, in Fast Company: "adoption is no longer the differentiator. The next competitive advantage is how much trust you’ve built around it. AI generates answers, but accountable human knowledge is what lets your team act on them." Patsy Mangan, CPO, on the Modern People Leader Podcast: "Learn the rules and understand why they exist, then give yourself permission to rewrite them. That’s the thinking behind our approach to the future of work - freedom paired with real clarity on expectations." Gemma Craven, CMO, on the Media Insights and BrandInc PR podcast: "Using AI well takes more people, not fewer. As it absorbs the executional middle layer, the work above it becomes judgement, strategy, and curation." Read more about their conversations here: https://lnkd.in/gMfHcYRf

Introducing "Connect the Docs," Scribd's first brand campaign! The idea is simple: in a world of instant answers, don't rush through the part of figuring things out. The 350 million documents on Scribd aren't the point, it’s all about what you do with them. That moment where someone else's work collides with your own thinking and something clicks? That's what we're built for. You'll see us out in the world this fall, with placements near campuses, on YouTube and Instagram, and everywhere students and educators are gearing up for a new year. Because thinking is worth saving. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g_ehiz7z

📣 Billionaire club alert 🚨 Scribd, Inc. now has 1 BILLION users! Yes, that's Billion with a B. What started in 2007 with a single document has grown into a global community across Scribd, Slideshare, Everand, and now Fable, all built around a simple idea: helping people discover, share, and build knowledge. Nearly two decades in, there’s a lot to celebrate. Thank you to everyone who downloaded a document, listened to an audiobook, or shared a presentation with the world for helping us get here. You can read more about the milestone on our newsroom: https://lnkd.in/ggwAer62 Cheers to the next billion!

The employees of Scribd, Inc. are a smart, empathetic group of folks, but we also have a deep competitive streak. That hits full stride during our annual Step Into Summer wellbeing challenge, where employees race their way to the top of the leaderboard through the activity of their choice. 👟 This year, 57 participants combined to log 12.1 million steps in just 22 days. That’s enough steps to have played in every minute of every match of the 2026 World Cup…6 times! Here’s to friendly competition, stronger connections, and staying in motion. Congrats to our top 3 steppers: 🥇 1st place Andre T. 🥈 2nd place Harrison Anderson 🥉 3rd place Natalie Medvedchuk

Last week, our team joined the fifth annual TrustCon in San Francisco - the largest gathering of trust and safety professionals in the industry. Our very own Harry Huang and Jeanie Lam took the stage to share some of our team's approaches to content moderation infrastructure and building scalable systems for content review. Three days of sessions, conversations, and shared problem-solving with practitioners from across platforms, regulators, and vendors - staying sharp in this field means staying in the room with the people doing this work everyday. Grateful to have been part of the conversation, and to keep learning alongside this community. #TrustCon2026 Trust & Safety Professional Association

Today, we released the 2026 Scribd Understanding Index, our inaugural look at how people actually find, build, and trust knowledge in the AI era. We surveyed 1,500 people and the results are clear: AI has created a new verification layer: 🔘 Trust is the new x-factor: 4 in 10 say the hardest part of any research session is knowing which sources to trust. 🔘 Human expertise is how we get it: Subject matter experts with first-hand experience and human-authored expert documents score almost four times higher on trust than AI-generated summaries.  🔘 The new workflow: 68% spend 1-6 hours a week verifying AI or search engine output 🔘 Depth still favors documents: PDFs and text remain the top format for complex content (39%), ahead of video (38%). The takeaway: AI didn’t replace the need for real expertise. It made it more valuable. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gT3CYrQp

4 in 10 people say the hardest part of research isn't finding information. It's knowing what to trust. This week Scribd launches its first-ever Understanding Index, a look at how people research, learn, and build confidence in what they know. How has the new information landscape changed the way you gain knowledge and understanding?

The ‘adaptation effect’ has been one of the defining trends in reading this year, as movies like Project Hail Mary and shows like Heated Rivalry drove their respective books to the top of the charts. Wuthering Heights also saw a 1000% jump in listening time on Everand following the release of the new movie in March, proving the effect isn’t limited to new titles. And with Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey hitting theaters today, now a 2800 year old epic is the hottest topic across Fable book clubs. Odyssey readers already love to debate which translation is the best, now they’ll get to weigh “movie, or book?” (though if you ask us, it’s almost always the book.) Check it out on Everand and decide for yourself! https://lnkd.in/grQRxD6c

Can you believe we’re already halfway through the year? As we hit the midpoint, Everand and Fable took a look at what our readers have been loving most in 2026. This year, readers have been captivated by thrillers, fantasy favorites, and returns to beloved series, with The Housemaid, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and Fourth Wing among the books topping the charts. From novels that keep you turning the page, to the stories sparking conversations across our communities, see what’s trending this so far this year: https://lnkd.in/gzUjQpX4