Scribd acquires LinkedIn's presentation service SlideShare

Microsoft LinkedIn has announced that it is selling its presentation-sharing service SlideShare to Scribd. The terms of the deal remain undisclosed.

“We’re excited to announce that SlideShare and Scribd have now come together to offer millions of users around the world great content to fuel their curiosity and learning,” LinkedIn announced via a blog post.

SlideShare was launched in 2006 and has been a part of LinkedIn since 2012. Its services include allowing users to upload and share presentations, infographics, documents, etc.

Scribd, on the other hand, offers over a million professionally published ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, sheet music, and magazines, alongside over 100 million documents uploaded by the community. These documents include information and educational resources like study guides, business templates, academic papers, public court filings, etc.

“Our acquisition of SlideShare is a major step towards creating the world’s largest digital library,” said Trip Adler, co-founder and CEO of Scribd. “Scribd has accumulated a unique collection of user-generated and professional content that we make available to our readers via personalised recommendations, and the addition of presentations from the SlideShare community advances our vision. It allows us to continue diversifying our offering while driving even more readers to the books, audiobooks, magazines, and other professionally published works in our digital library,” Scribd said in its blog post. 

Slideshare and its archive of content will officially become part of Scribd starting today. Existing SlideShare presentations and activity will remain on SlideShare.net and on the SlideShare mobile app.