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Scribd is conducting user-testing sessions for the new iPhone app, Float Reader, and would love for you to participate!

Sessions will be during the week of December 12, 2011. We’ll be asking you to test and play with our app.

Your session will last about an hour and will be done in person at Scribd HQ, located in the SoMa district of San Francisco.

You will receive a $25 Visa gift card for your time and energy.

Requirements for participation:
1) Complete a preliminary survey to determine user-testing eligibility.
2) Own and be willing to use your iPhone or iPod Touch for testing.
3) Have not used the Float Reader iPhone app before.
4) Available to travel to the Scribd office in SoMa, San Francisco.
5) Willing to communicate your experiences with the Float Reader app with Scribd staff.

If you would like to participate, please email us at testers (at) float.com.

The holidays are just around the corner and here at Scribd, we’re celebrating with Celebration Café. The café opened its door today and will be serving up creative and fun reads on topics ranging from Halloween Crafts to New Years Resolutions. Celebration Café will be open until February to celebrate the many different holidays that are to come! To keep things fresh, we will frequently be serving up new and timely holiday reads, so be sure to come back and hang out often!

As Halloween is just around the corner, we’re starting off the menu with some spooky, ghoulish fun. Anyone needing to do some last minute crafting can find inspiration in the “Arts and Crafts and Halloween” collection. Disgusting but kinda cute recipes can be found in the “Halloween Recipes” collection. Like keeping company with vampires, werewolves and zombies? Check out the “Dawn of the Unread” collection from Crown Publishing Group.

So grab a cup of cocoa, curl up on the couch and join us in celebrating the wonderful holiday season!

Mariko Fritz-Krockow, Marketing Manager
Currently reading “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello”

The weather is cooling, the leaves are changing color and just about every store is selling over-sized bags of candy. You know what this means? It means Halloween is near!

In the days leading up to Halloween, we are putting together a Halloween-themed Community Collection. Items from this collection will be featured and promoted on Scribd, as well as through our new iPhone app, Float. So add your ghost stories, suspenseful poems, tales about childhood Halloweens, costume how-tos and more to the moderated collection! Adding something to a moderated collection is easy! You can learn how to do so here.

The Scribd Staff will also be sending a Float t-shirt to the author of the staff favorite submission. To qualify to be chosen, your document needs to have been uploaded in the last month.

Happy haunting!

Mariko Fritz-Krockow, Marketing Manager
Currently reading “Zombies Don’t Trick or Treat”

Scribd is conducting user-testing sessions for the new iPhone app, Float Reader, and would love for you to participate!

Sessions will be during the week of October 10, 2011. We’ll be asking you to test and play with our app.

Your session will last about an hour and will be done in person at Scribd HQ, located in the SoMa district of San Francisco.

If you are chosen to participate in user-testing, you will receive a $25 Visa gift card for your time and energy.

Requirements for participation:
1) Complete a preliminary survey to determine user-testing eligibility.
2) Own and be willing to use your iPhone or iPod Touch for testing.
3) Have not used the Float Reader iPhone app before.
4) Available to travel to the Scribd office in SoMa, San Francisco.
5) Willing to communicate your experiences with the Float Reader app with Scribd staff.

If you would like to participate, please email us at testers (at) float.com.

We are so excited to be, together with Scholastic and DonorsChoose.org, partnering with Lionsgate for National Literacy Month, and promote the wonders of reading. We’re releasing the second chapter of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling book, “The Hunger Games,” exclusively on Scribd, for everyone to read for free! We worked with Lionsgate to build a new app that will allow you to read this exciting chapter directly on Facebook and share it with all your friends across social networks.

Not only that, anyone who reads “The Hunger Games” exclusive excerpt on Scribd or Facebook will be given a chance to enter to win a library of books for a DonorsChoose.org public school! The new film by Lionsgate, “The Hunger Games,” which is, of course, based on this exciting novel, will be in theaters March 23, 2012.

It’s your chance to make a difference in the development of our iPhone app, Float Reader!

On Thursday, August 11 and Monday, August 15, we will be conducting user-testing sessions, where we’ll ask you to test and play with our new iPhone app, Float Reader.

Sessions will last about an hour and will be done in person at Scribd HQ. And, of course, we won’t let you leave empty handed! For your time and energy, you will receive a $25 Visa gift card.

Requirements for user-testing:
1)   Own and be willing to use your iPhone or iPod Touch for testing.
2)   Available to travel to the Scribd office in SoMa, San Francisco.
3)   Willing to communicate your experiences with the Float Reader app with Scribd staff.

If you would like to participate, please email us at testers@float.com.

Mariko Fritz-Krockow, Community and Content Manager