Top 6 Indian Startups for Book Lovers
Are you someone who loves to read books and building an empire out of them is your dream? Well, you can always find a way to build your dream and to prove that today you are going to discover how some people have already built this dream and are living it! Their quirky ideas have now been established as successful startups and they have a long way to go.
Qwerty Thoughts
Qwerty Thoughts was founded by Jasleen Khurana and Prateek Gupta in the year 2009. It is an online platform where people interact, read, discover and discuss together. They also give access to e-books — some are paid, some free. Qwerty Thoughts also serves as a self-publishing platform. Here, readers and writers can interact and get feedback for their work.
The startup has clocked upwards of about ₹50,000 in revenue and is planning to partner with big publishers and authors in the coming months. Currently, their main revenue comes from ads and promotional charges of books that authors promote on their platform.
The Vowelor app
The idea of a customized virtual library sounds interesting, isn’t it? Founded by Mr. Lalit Sharma and Mr. Manik Ghawri in November 2009, the Vowelor app allows you to make your own virtual library, to which you can add books of your choice. The platform also provides services like personalized suggestions, recommendations, etc. You can also connect with your fellow readers and authors. They endeavor to support book promotion services soon.
Librarywala
Mumbai-based Librarywala was founded by Hiten Turakhia and Hiten Dedhia in August 2007. This virtual library provides you with 30,000 unique titles and has over 1 lakh books in 6 languages. Currently, it has 10,000 members.
IndiaReads
A rental service-based startup was founded by Veda in 2009. The smell of books is called Bibliosmia which every reader loves. But spending too much on your booklist is expensive, especially when you know that those books will rest on your shelves for the rest of your life once you read them. IndiaReads provides you with the perfect solution. Today, it is India’s largest book rental platform, with services in 500+ cities. Here, you can just read and return.
Kwench
When you are in a profession, you would like to read books that can help you to upscale your skill and help in your profession. And in the corporate world, it becomes more important for you to find your profession-specific books.
Founded by Mr. Nookala and Mr. Krishna Madhabhushi in 2008, Kwench provides professional knowledge to corporate employees through books. They deliver books within a day and also receive funds from IT and other renowned companies.
Attic Books
Are you someone who likes to read and celebrate international authors? Believes in discovering beautiful, unique works of unusual writers? Then why not open a startup where you can do this easily and help others with the same. Attic books founded by Anita Nair startup is based on this ideology. It is an online platform where you can easily find good personalized recommendations of international literature and authors.
Books have always helped us escape from reality, but building a billion-dollar business idea based on books feels like a dream come true. Through this article, The Readers Space wants to inspire every bibliophile who has the dream to make books as their source of wealth and start working on that idea for you never know where it might lead you!
