When building your online presence, be sure that your customers can download your content in all formats. One excellent way of ensuring this is by using PDF documents.
Publishing information online is perfect for marketers, designers, companies, teachers, students, governments and charities. Anyone can publish in a range of formats, including beautiful e-books, e-catalogues, music, audio books, photos and presentations. The following sites allow you to list your content online, with links that reference back your site.
DocStoc: A premier online community and marketplace where users can find and share professional documents. Users may upload and share documents to the Internet, and use this vast repository of free and for-purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents. Allows for easy search, preview, and download.
Calameo: A new publishing method that allows users to simply and instantly create interactive web publications. Provides an ideal way to publish, search for, and share all of your documents online. Allows the creation of magazines, brochures, sales catalogs, annual reports, presentation brochures, and more, from a PDF file.
Issuu: Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. In just a few seconds users can create beautiful digital editions simply by uploading their publications. It’s our mission to empower individuals, companies, and institutions to publish their documents across all digital platforms.
Yudu: A free ePublishing library and marketplace that allows users to read, publish, buy, sell and share digital content. Create a library of your favorite music, documents, and magazines, and share them with others.
FreeIQ: An online community that allows users to upload videos of any size, free, for the purpose of sharing knowledge. Users may purchase content directly from providers, and may upload almost all types of media. FreeIQ also offers a proprietary search engine that incorporates a sophisticated user rating system that assimilates direct input, review quality and actual user experience for each piece of content.
scribd.com: The largest social publishing company in the world with tens of millions of people publishing and discovering original writings and documents each month. Scribd allows users to quickly and easily turn nearly any file—including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel—into a Web document and share it with the world.
docuter.com: Adeptol provides the industry’s leading Web-based universal document viewer, Docuter, which allows users to upload, publish, store and share documents. Docuter allows users to easily interact with others through a Web-based online reader application. Documents can be embedded onto your corporate Web site, blog, e-zine, etc., and can be shared and emailed with the Docuter community or your own friends. Docuter supports more than 200 document types.
Each document is wrapped in a social network, which allows you and your community of friends to interact through commenting, ranking, bookmarking and emailing. Docuter provides the platform for users and businesses to upload and share their documents with everyone, and is a repository of a variety of documents, including legal, business, financial, technology, educational and creative.
