Docstoc is an electronic document

Electronic document

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 repository and online store, aimed at the business community.

Although Docstoc operates in a way that is superficially similar to other online document retailer sites such as Scribd

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, its emphasis is on technical, legal and business documentation. It is commonly used for uploading company reports and other financial and legal documents.

Development

Docstoc was launched in 2007, and originally only allowed companies to hold upload accounts. This rule has been relaxed as of February 2010, and individual accounts are now allowed. All content hosted

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 on Docstoc was originally free to end-users, but the Docstoc store now also supplies a range of "commercial" documents (such as contracts and other legal documents) for a fee, which is split between the document owner and Docstoc.

Traffic

DocStoc's CEE was quoted by CNN Money in February 2010 as claiming that the DocStoc database held 13 million documents, was getting twenty million visitors per month, and hosting a million downloads per month.