Instead of uploading your documents to free file hosting such as Rapidshare, why not try using Scribd? Scribd is very useful for documents because it has an embedded PDF player to publish and view documents right out of your browser! Even if you do not have Adobe PDF reader installed, you still can view because the embedded PDF player is in FLASH. Just like Youtube, when you upload a video file, it will only require Flash player installed to start streaming the video.
Uploading is very easy. On the top right hand side of the Scribd main page, you’ll see a small section where you can upload multiple documents by using Ctrl or Shift key when selecting the documents to upload. After completed uploading, you’ll have the option to give a title for the documents you’ve uploaded and also tag it with necessary keywords for easy searching and browsing through documents.
Formats supported by Scribd are .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, .txt, etc.(document formats only). Other than viewing in PDF, you can also download the documents in PDF format, Microsoft Word format, plain text format and also MP3.
I think Scribd might face a big copyright problem in future when the website gets famous. If you search for popular copyrighted ebooks such as O’Reilly, McGraw Hill and etc… it exist FREE for you to view. I did a search on Nostradamus and found “The Nostradamus Code World War III” free to download and view. From the author’s website, you’ll need to pay $14.95 to download and view the ebook. I tried this search because I remembered seeing this advertisement on Google a few days ago.
Scribd is definitely a very unique and useful concept but for the copyright reasons, sooner or later Scribd will have to remove all those copyright materials or else the whole website will be shut down. Before this happens, quickly visit Scribd and search for whatever ebooks you’ve been searching for.