Examples?
It's basically an in-browser pdf reader based on structural copyright violation.
They sent me an email and we had a long conversation with after I slagged on their reader here before, but the general conclusion was that they didn't view the Flash app as their core competency -- they're a community site, damnit!
I use the brilliant http://docs.google.com/viewer and I have no idea why the hell Scribd doesn't clone it.