--- title: Netflix-Like Service for Comic Books Launched by Scribd description: Access to 10,000 comic book titles costs only $8.99 a month canonical: https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-11T12:35:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:59:55.641Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Netflix-Like Service for Comic Books Launched by Scribd og:description: Access to 10,000 comic book titles costs only $8.99 a month og:url: https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Netflix-Like Service for Comic Books Launched by Scribd twitter:description: Access to 10,000 comic book titles costs only $8.99 a month twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Scribd Launches Its 'Netflix for Comics' With More Than 10,000 Titles > Sponsored content. 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More and more women and girls are getting into the act at comic book, sci-fi and fantasy conventions, including this year's Comic-Con in San Diego_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 11, 2015 12:35 PM UTC  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 11, 2015 12:35 PM UTC The e-book and audiobook subscription service that has been likened to a “Netflix for books” is now expanding to comic books. Subscribers to Scribd will have access to more than 10,000 comic books, in addition to the pre-existing library of e-books and audio-books, as a part of the San Francisco-based start-up’s $8.99 monthly fee, [_Wired_ reports](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/scribd-comic-books/). “We’re really tailoring our service to die-hard voracious readers, and we’re servicing publishers to bring them this audience that we have,” Scribd’s vice president of editorial and marketing, Julie Haddon, said Tuesday. The company says it is the first subscription service to offer such broad a selection of comics alongside audiobooks and e-books. Scribd isn’t the only company trying to apply a binge-able, online subscription model to books: Oyster offers over a million titles for a $9.95 monthly fee, and Amazon launched its Kindle Unlimited service last summer with a $9.99 monthly fee and more than 600,000 titles. \[[_Wired_](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/scribd-comic-books/)\] ## Transcript >> Well, when I first started coming here when I was about four, I was one of probably like twenty girls that were actually at Comic- Con, but as I kept going every year, I started to notice more and more girls started to get into it and break out of the hole like girls are supposed to be prim and proper, not really like comic books and now, just like everyone's whatever about it. >> Hi. >> Most people are approachable when they cosplay. Just some of them you gotta kind of watch out for like if they're playing a meaner character, assume they're gonna be in character unless they have a free hug sign. >> Anyone who cosplays anything from that Manga or that comic, instantly as you-- >> Over from there. >> Yeah. However you like it. >> Oh, I'm so happy to see you. >> Today, this fashion is a Japanese style called Lolita. >> Uh- hmm. >> It's like popular with like [ unk ], it's a lot of it Korean in curls and lace. Not really gear towards only guy stuff anymore which makes it a lot easier for girls to come to Comic- Con and meet people. Tell me your name. >> My name is Kiku Honda. >> And where are you from? >> I'm from Japan. >> My favorite comic book would probably be Axis Powers Italia, which I am depicted in with the rest of the country. I think that recently, there have been a lot more women and the sad thing is a lot of them come in skimpy outfits just to be in skimpy outfits and I think that there are slowly a lot more women coming especially fan girls. >> And what is fan girl mean? >> Fan girl is probably one whom is obsessed with a certain aspect of something and will do anything for it. Fan girl means when there is a comic or a character that you really like and you like them so, so much that you will go crazy if you see someone dressed up as that character. You buy all of the products from a comic or anything like that. I am personally into Manga comics and they have shounen which is for boys and shoujo which is for girls but a lot of the boys comics, I think it's pretty cool for girls too, like my favorite is Death Note, that's at Manga, which is-- it's technically a boys Manga but girls can get into it too. Another one of my favorite is Vampire Knight, which I think both boys and girls can enjoy and a lot of the storylines are, I don't know, I guess more relatable sometimes and the art is amazing, like some of the artists are really good so-- >> Well, honestly, there is always Naruto, that's the best. The one who started out with because personally that's what I started out with. So, and it's like such a huge fan based. There's like no way you can't make a friend once you fall in love with it. Even if you just come to Comic- Con, you appreciate cosplays, there'll be people who walk up to you and become your best friend in a second. It's just like kindergarten. >> It makes it a lot easier to talk to people because I started out a very, very, very shy person. I didn't talk to anybody. I just kind of walked along in my own little world. I didn't talk to other people, I didn't really want to, and then I got into so heavy into Animax and learned about conventions and I started going to them and then I was like, oh, I can dress up like this, I can dress up this way. So, I started making my own costumes and you know, now, ten years later, I run around, I say hi to everybody. Now, the market for female superheroes is getting a lot bare which is making it so much easier for women who aren't into Anime or stuff like that to cosplay like for instance this year, Alice in Wonderland came out. You got like Alices running around, you got White Queen, Red Queen running around all over the place. You got Harlequin running around and Joker. You have Raven and Starfire from Teen Titans. You have a multitude of female superhero characters and your heroine characters that make it so much easier for the female to find somebody, to find a middle ground there and be able to run around with the guys and be like, huh, I'm just as good as you. >> I think it's cool seeing a more diverse group of people hanging out, just what nerd boys and more, just everyone. >> I'm gonna see if I can come again next year with my little sister who's really into this stuff. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/"},"headline":"Scribd Launches Its 'Netflix for Comics' With More Than 10,000 Titles","datePublished":"2015-02-11T12:35:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:59:55.641Z","description":"Access to thousands of comic book titles costs only $8.99 a month","url":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/","keywords":["Books","Comics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/","name":"Scribd Launches Its 'Netflix for Comics' With More Than 10,000 Titles"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Fan Girls of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comics","description":"More and more women and girls are getting into the act at comic book, sci-fi and fantasy conventions, including this year's Comic-Con in San Diego","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Psfnh6gb/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-08-03T15:44:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Psfnh6gb.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/","duration":"PT4M32S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3704699/netflix-for-comics-scribd/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```