About Us

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 1.4 million users in over 700 libraries 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. While the Implementation, Hosting, Upgrades are kept free on our Cloud-servers, we charge only an affordable annual charge of INR 10,000-00 (US$ 145) towards support, hence making Library automation affordable and feasible for any size of the library.

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.

Some of our Valuable Customers among others from India and 29 other Countries, viz., Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Columbia, Congo, Croatia (Hrvatska), Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Uganda, UK, USA, Zimbabwe, are:

ICAR (205 Agricultural Libraries across India),	WHO (9 Locations)	Indira Gandhi National Center for Arts,
Central Bank of Nigeria (37 locations),	IIT Mandi,	IIIT Delhi,
Amity Universities (8 locations),	Delhi Technical University, Delhi	Indian Embassy,Bangladesh
The Marine Biological Association of the U.K.,	Shiv Nadar University, Ghaziabad	Delhi Public Library,Delhi
Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi	Thapar University,Patiala, Punjab	Doon School, Dehradoon
Welhams School, Dehradoon	Kenya Institute of Bankers, Nairobi,	Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
Mussouri International School, Mussouri	Fountainhead Education Trust, Surat	SGT University (6 libraries), Gurgaon
BML Munjal University, Gurgaon	Forest Research Institute, Dehradoon	O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat
Laguna State Polytechnic University of Philippines,	Marble Hill University of Malawi,	Benford International School Library, Nigeria,

BBB Registrations - Certifications

Certificate of Incorporation	DIPP Startup Certification	ISO Certification	MSME Certification