[acgourley]

<devils advocate>

1) You want people to eventually download and re-edit, but in the mean time (or for some people) you just want to allow them to see it in their browser. 2) The adobe pdf plug-in is less than spectacular, even if you do go to all the trouble to export your office docs to pdf. 3) I'm not sure, but the pdf conversion from the 3 Office document formats must be fairly lossy. Then again, I don't know that the office document conversion to ipaper is any better. 4) The user might not have Office or a suitable clone handy.

Also, this is only slightly related to what you're saying, but you could imagine Scribd supporting more obscure document formats which are not readily converted to pdf's.

[elad]

Good points. Especially no. 1. However, the eventuality of it makes it unlikely IMO. The web is about here and now. Why not just use a wiki?