Best Book Buddies' Vision: Facilitating Humanity Acquire and Spread Wisdom and Knowledge.

Best Book Buddies (BBB) is the unique attempt to bring the whole of the Books domain, (both e-Content and Physical) on a single platform connecting B2B2C. With the smart use of technology, BBB solves the current problems of the entire value chain, thus making everyone on the platform a happy user. Every user can be a seller as well as a customer here, which is another unique feature.

BBB is a Startup registered with DIPP and MSME (Government of India) and has the ISO:27001:2013 certification.

BBB has created blend of a social network and market-place for books where users Discover Books and Buddies to Interact timely on their topics of concern.
Best Book Buddies servers 2.0 million users in over 800 libraries with over 5 million Books (& other items) across 30 countries by successfully implementing the Koha based library, promoting reading & writing habits among its users. BBB is at the cusp of creating a strong social, B2B2C e-Commerce & offline network of Book/Content lovers.

BBB has launched many new authors, including school-going-students in its first 77 E-books, mostly in Indian languages (Hindi, Angika, Rajasthani, Bazzika, Maithili), thus encouraging authors to come forward and get their books e-published with an easily affordable expense, while getting 33.3% royalty income on sales. We foresee promoting/publishing over 3,000 authors a year.

BBB is a 360 degree social & e-commerce & offline network of Book/Content lovers across the spectrum of Stakeholders (Author-Reader-Publisher), creating value for every stakeholder.

BBB's "Mission Library" is an attempt to transform libraries with affordable and maintenance-free automation using Koha LMS. For the Koha Implementation, Hosting, Upgrades, AMC on our Cloud-servers, we charge only an affordable annual charge of INR 10,500-00 (US$ 150) towards support, hence making Library automation affordable and feasible for any size of the library. This subsidized change comes with 2 Advertisements per screen. With such Advertisements, the annual charges are RS. 46,500 (US$ 645).

Best Book Buddies (BBB) is a SaaS Platform of Globally connected automated libraries, with an easily affordable automation for libraries. Great place for Book-Lovers, Students, Teachers, Librarians, Readers, Authors, Publishers, Educationists, Institutions, Policy-makers and anyone connected to books in any way.

Networking libraries across the world on one aggregated platform, making books organized & easily reachable, thus facilitating global knowledge for all, BBB creates a transforming effect on education and thinking process, creating possibilities of new methods of delivering education.

BBB is developing various additional products, viz.,

• App for Readers,
• App for Library-Users,
• Monitoring system for School, College, Universities, Research Institutions,
• Analytics tools for Publishers,
• Tools for Advertisers,
• Promotional tools for Authors,

to make life easier for them while conducting their interactions in the Book-domain.

This platform is a result of over 4 years of research and validation at libraries across 15 countries, understanding their needs and concerns, resulting in the creation of this platform that will provide the following value proposition:

• Libraries will get easily Affordable & Maintenance-free Automation;
• Librarians will be free of technical issues and be able to concentrate on their domain;
• Readers will get to know the nearest location of desired book/s.
• Government & other stake-holders will know the exact status of any/all the books.
• Publishers will be able to connect to readers for the first time in human history.
• Author forums will make a big difference to the future plans of the Authors.
• Review sharing will help buy the right book/s.
• Book-lovers will be able to refer, review-share, discuss, exchange and connect as per book/s of their choice.

We thank the whole of Koha Community for building such a wonderful tool for Libraries, which led us to discover this possibility.

BBB Registrations - Certifications

Certificate of Incorporation	DIPP Startup Certification	ISO Certification	MSME Certification