Docstoc Launches DocStore, Online Marketplace to Buy and Sell Premium Professional Documents. Publishers include Legal Zoom, Real Deal Docs, 4Expertise & Ready Built Forms; Docstoc leveraging DocStore as the iTunes of Documents. SANTA MONICA (August 13th, 2009) - Docstoc, the premier community to find and share professional documents, today launched DocStore(www.docstoc.com/store), a marketplace for premium brands and publishers to sell their professional documents. DocStore compliments the 5,000,000 publicly available documents already on Docstoc that are free for anyone to preview and download. DocStore also leverages Docstoc’s new proprietary document viewer that enables consumers to preview the documents, while protecting the publisher’s content. Users are able to preview a portion of the content before purchase, and Docstoc offers a 100% money back guarantee on all documents in the DocStore. Since its launch in November 2007, Docstoc has been one of the fastest growing sites on the internet, currently reaching over 8 million people a month worldwide. Already known as the premier destination for free professional documents, DocStore enhances the Docstoc service by offering a marketplace that can be leveraged by thousands of publishers regardless of size. “With DocStore we can provide a vetted premium offering to our users while boosting sales for publishers seeking new distribution outlets for their professional content says Jason Nazar, CEO and Co-Founder of Docstoc. “It’s the best of both worlds where free and premium content are easily found and users can choose what’s best for them.” DocStore is launching with a number of partners including LegalZoom, the premier legal document service on the web, making their collection of Forms available on Docstoc for previewing and purchase. The additional dozen publishing partners span a variety of categories and include Real Deal Docs, 4expertise, Ready Built Forms, and Legal Agreements.com. “We’re excited to leverage the DocStore marketplace to build awareness and drive sales for LegalZoom Forms, a complementary product to our core stable of custom legal documents,” said John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom. “Our goal is to be everywhere small businesses and families turn for their legal solutions. Partnering with Docstoc helps expose our forms and services to millions of professionals.” Docstoc provides a number of tools for its DocStore partners/publishers including an advanced copyright filter that prevents their documents from being re-uploaded to Docstoc after purchase. In addition, publishers have access to custom real-time statistics and reporting to easily monitor the demand and sales of their content. Publishers interested in distributing their content via Docstoc’s DocStore can email bizdev@docstoc.com.
About Docstoc
Docstoc is the premier online community and marketplace to find and share professional documents. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and
serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded. Docstoc facilitates the sharing and promotion of documents across the web and has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media.
Docstoc was founded by Jason Nazar and Alon Shwartz in 2006. The site launched in November
2007 and now shares over 5,000,000 documents publicly.
Contact: Docstoc Press: Jason Nazar Business Development: Robyn Ward 310-255-1172 bizdev@docstoc.com