Publish your download file

On Scribd, anyone can be a published author! And publishing documents on Scribd is a breeze. You'll find the Upload button at the top of almost every page of Scribd's website. Make sure you're logged into your Scribd account, then click Upload to begin.

You can quickly publish single or multiple documents, and we accept a variety of formats to make it easy for you to publish your work.

(The file formats we support are: pdf, txt, ps, rtf, epub, key, odt, odp, ods, odg, odf, sxw, sxc, sxi, sxd, doc, ppt, pps, xls, docx, pptx, ppsx, xlsx)

Once you upload a file, it will automatically begin converting. The technical maximum for the file size we accept is MB but documents under 75MB have a significantly higher chance of a successful conversion, so please be sure to stay under 75MB so your documents convert correctly.  

Once it's uploaded and converted, it's time to tell us more about it!

The title and description fields are required before it'll fully display on your profile. Here's where you get the opportunity to create an engaging title and a short, concise description to catch a reader's interest! Include as much information about your document as possible - it'll help people to find your work and want to read it.

If you would like to make the document private instead of publicly available to the readers on Scribd, click the checkbox under the description field next to "Make this document private".

In addition to the title information, clicking on "Advanced Settings" will show additional options. Here, you can choose whether you'd like to give other members the ability to copy and paste text from your document as well as the option to download it directly to their computer.

When everything is just how you want it, click on the "Done" button and you'll be taken to a page where you can click on the "View" button to view your newly published document on Scribd, and a link to view all of your uploads. 

In some cases, full versions of a document may only be visible to paying Scribd subscribers. For information about adjusting your upload settings please check out our article, "How do I prevent readers from paying to download or read my documents?"

Congratulations! You’ve just successfully published your document on Scribd. Now, go out there, get to work and start publishing more.

Scribd's publishing platform is great for making your work available to a large online audience, but Scribd does not provide a text editor. There's no way to edit a document's contents once its been uploaded. But don't think that means you can't revise your work! You can make changes to a document on your computer and then upload the changed document as a new revision on Scribd. The new revision will replace the old copy while retaining the document's statistics, and the document's URL will remain the same!

First you'll need to edit your original document on your computer. The choice is up to you whether to save your changes using a new file name or overwrite the existing file; the name of the file you upload won't affect the document on Scribd.

When you're ready to upload the revised file, head on over to your Document Uploads page and select the edit icon to the right of the document you'd like to update. 

Scroll down the page and click 'Upload a new revision'.You'll see a screen similar to the following. Click Choose File and locate the updated copy of the file on your computer and then click Upload and the copy will be uploaded and processed by the system. Voilà! Your revision is up on Scribd in place of the old copy.Old versions of the document will be stored. Nobody can access them, but you can always revert to a previous version later if you'd like. Simply return to the document's properties page and select the old revision from the list and select 'Revert'.

If you encounter any issues you may want to check out our article on troubleshooting document uploads, or contact Scribd support anytime for assistance. Explain the issue in as much detail as you can and we'll do our best to help you get your work up on Scribd. 

Happy publishing!