Scribe Media today

Is Scribe Media legit? What happened in 2023, and who runs Scribe now.

Yes, Scribe Media is open and publishing books. In 2023 the company that ran Scribe ran out of money and stopped operating. A new company bought Scribe out of foreclosure, saw more than 100 stranded authors through to publication, and runs Scribe today. Here are the facts, with links to the original sources.

What happened in 2023

In May 2023, Scribe Media LLC, the company that ran Scribe at the time, ran out of money before many authors' books were finished. In the months that followed it laid off its employees, left many freelancers without pay, and faced legal proceedings against its owners. You can read the updates published at the time: June 21, 2023 and July 14, 2023.

Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company, stepped in and created a new organization to keep serving the old company's authors. Scribe was then bought out of foreclosure by a group put together by Eric Jorgenson, a Scribe author who had been hurt by the collapse himself.

What happened next

• Eric Jorgenson ran the new Scribe through the recovery, made sure as many of the old company's stranded authors and employees as possible were taken care of, and saw more than 100 stranded authors through to publication.
• Eric is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, The Anthology of Balaji and The Book of Elon, all published with Scribe. He wrote up the whole story, with a timeline, in The Revival of Scribe Media.
• Scribe's founder Tucker Max wrote his account in The Scribe Media Collapse and Recovery.
• In 2026, once the business was stable, Travis Stoliker became CEO. Eric moved into the role of Author in Residence.

Who Scribe Media is today

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