Scribd Adds Audiobooks To All-You-Read Library, Piling Pressure On Amazon

Scribd doesn't take kindly to being cribbed. In July, the San Francisco company woke up to find that Amazon.com had imitated one of its core services, introducing an all-you-can-read book subscription service that rivaled the "Netflix for books" model pioneered by Scribd and fellow competitor Oyster. With "Kindle Unlimited," the Seattle retailer made it a selling point that it had more titles than the little guys, as well as something the others didn't have: more than 2,000 audiobooks. On Thursday, that distinction is no more