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Scribd Split Its Library Into Four - and Found a Bigger Story
The company once pitched one enormous digital shelf. Now it is betting that documents, decks, books and book clubs work better in separate rooms - connected by a single subscription strategy and a growing layer of AI.
Plympton, Inc.
Plympton is a literary studio that reinvents how fiction is written, distributed, and read in the digital age. Founded in 2011 by journalist Jennifer 8. Lee and novelist Yael Goldstein Love, the company borrows the Hollywood development model - working with authors from the idea stage - and applies it to serialized fiction, short stories, and experimental formats. Plympton launched the first Kindle Serials for Amazon, acquired the email-serialization pioneer DailyLit, built the curated reading app Rooster, crowdsourced fresh covers for public-domain classics, curated Amazon Original Stories collections, put free short fiction on the NYC subway, and adapted literature into virtual reality.
Tizra
Tizra is a Providence, Rhode Island software company that builds a cloud content delivery platform for associations, publishers, and professional organizations. Its modular system lets clients upload, protect, search, sell, and showcase digital content - ebooks, PDFs, periodicals, audio, and video - through a secure digital library, an eStore for direct sales, and an API-driven 'Connected Hub' that ties content into AMS, CRM, LMS, and AI tools. Founded in 2006 by document-engineering scientist David Durand and former Popular Mechanics editor Abe Dane, Tizra helps content-driven organizations turn their archives into discoverable, revenue-generating, member-serving experiences.