Dharya Information Private Limited – a company formed in 2007 by 4 friends with a mission to help people foster their habit of reading. The vision is to ensure that the habit of reading prevails and is passed on to the next generations. In this era of technological revolution, we strive to ensure that there is a market for books in printed format,
Dharya information private ltd. leverages
the power of the librarywala brand to offer online customers a premier
destination for renting multilingual books.
We as readers identified the following issues:
- Limited number of libraries with very limited collection of books
- Reading is an expensive hobby; one cannot buy all the books to read
- In these busy times readers were not able to take out time to foster their habit, travel too and from work took most of their time and the traffic added to the exhaustion
The idea was to solve the above, if the reader could not come to a library/bookstore, what if we took the library to them. We started speaking with several readoholics outside several bookshops, interviewing them and understanding their requirements and chalking out the solutions plan.
The above gave birth to Librarywala.com – India’s first & largest online book rental library.
Librarywala.com started operations on August 1st, 2007 in Mumbai with 8000 unique titles, and slowly started getting members by word of mouth, within the first few months itself we started getting a great response and a huge demand from other cities in the country, we started our services in Bangalore on January 19th, 2008 and consequently in Pune on November 20th, 2008.
Our collection of books is well distributed among the following categories which are further divided into sub-categories for easy access of members:
| Business & Management | Non- fiction | Biography | Gujarati |
| Fiction | Films | History & Current Affairs | Tamil |
| Self-help | Children | Religion | Kannada |
| Health | Sports | Marathi | Hindi |
We offer our members the benefits of Convenience, Collection, Choice & Cost.
Convenience – Doorstep delivery and pick up services
Collection – Over one Lac books to choose from
Choice - Books available in more than five languages
Cost – Pocket friendly plans
In 2009 a company wanted us to set up a library at their premises and that’s how we ventured into corporate library solutions; over the years we have innovated in the way these solutions are now offered. We can help you set up a library at your premises with the books being rotated on monthly basis and also give you options where you can provide library services to all your employees without opening a library at your premises by directly connecting them on our website with a customized corporate subscription.
For our corporate clients the benefits extend several folds with the added advantages for the company and the employees:
| No library at your premises | Existing Library at your premises |
|---|---|
|
- Use the space for other office purposes - Save on maintenance of books - Save on resource costs - Save on recurring investment on books |
- Save on recurring investment on books - Monthly new stocks updated via rotation of books - No worries of dead stocks - From classics to new releases made available |
- Direct access to our complete collection of books
- Read on your profession and keep yourself updates with world trends
- Learn sub-consciously while you read
- One stop shop for all your knowledge and research needs
- Over 35000 retail members.
- Over 1.5 Lac corporate users using our services.
- Librarywala.com has won the Star Entrepreneur award 2009 by Indira international innovation summit.
- Librarywala.com has won the Finalist award among the top 30 finalists in the Tata & Nen startup awards
(chosen from a total of 600 companies started in India)
- Librarywala.com has made it to the Limca book of records 2010 for being the First and the biggest online library in India.
- Librarywala.com has been nominated for India 5000 best MSME award for quality excellence 2017.
Our Corporate Solutions: Every person is different and so is every company and their requirements, from a company who has 50 employees to a company that have more than 40000 employees, We customize solutions for our corporate clients and serve more than 100+ corporate clients.
Library Plan: fund your library with our books and we replenish the complete collection every month Pay as you use: the company pays only for the number of books used by their employees Pay per active user: the company pay only for the active users Monthly fixed disbursement: The company pays a fixed amount per month
We bring a host of trainers from different fields and industries to your premises, from an X-CEO with more than 25 years of experience to a Young CEO of a start-up, from authors who have written only 1 book to authors who have penned down more than 9 best sellers. Excel training, Motivational talks, innovation masterclass to Communication excellence - we get the best to train you and your peers.
Librarywala.com also conducts several events/activities for team building, stress busting and out of the box thinking, we conduct events like Scribble, The Art Therapy Sessions and other to go a step further than books. In the last 3 years, we have conducted more than 12 Art Therapy sessions with more than 600 participants and 9 scribble events receiving over 540 entries.
We have already done the following events and sessions at several of our corporate client's premises:
Scribble
Know your peers
The Art Therapy
Book Quiz
Author Chat Events
Excel training
Innovation Master class
Sales Communication
Service Excellence
Strategic Leadership
Customer-Centric Innovation
Motivational Sessions
Our applications will be available for various platforms like iOS and Android that will allow users to order paperback books and also rent digital products like E-books, Summaries, and Magazines. We will have content in English, and other regional, foreign languages. we look to cater to a larger and global audience with our digital products and solutions.
Products that will be available for the users will be:
- Paperback books
- E-books
- Summaries
- Magazines
- Case Studies
- Journals
- Comics
- Cook Books & Videos
Dharya Information Private Limited launched its publishing brand by the name i-Read Publications in 2018 with its first book “The A to Z of Sales Communication” which is very well accepted in the corporate community and climbed up to be the number 3 bestseller on Amazon within 9 days from the date of launch.
Our publishing division will provide a great platform to existing and aspiring authors to showcase their work and reach an already existing reader base of over one lac readers. we already have more than 8 books lined up for publishing by the year 2020.
We look forward to pampering and nourish all of your knowledge needs and have a fruitful association with you for a long time to come.
Happy Reading© 2024 Dharya Information Private Limited