Our Story

LibreDigital was founded in 1999, and we’ve been innovating ever since. We started our company with the goal of offering a digital reading experience for consumers and providing publishers with digital warehousing and e-distribution when the web was just getting started. In the past 10 years, we’ve helped to drive constant growth and evolution in digital publishing and social media for books. And, we continue to be at the forefront of these changes, expanding our services to continue to offer our partners the tools and services they need to compete.

Since 2000

• Providing digital replica for newspapers to readers worldwide at Newsstand.com.

• Building a comprehensive catalog of digital newspapers, magazines, and books now numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

• Building innovative digital reading technologies to help publishers reach new readers.

Since 2003

• LibreDigital was the first company to provide online book browsing and preview experience (“BookBrowse”) to publishers to offer their readers.

• BookBrowse has powered hundreds of millions of page views since its launch.

• Fulfilling e-book reading experiences direct to consumers for publishers.

Since 2007

• First to offer book sharing widgets. Books were being shared in MySpace through LibreDigital tools before they were shared in Facebook.

• Driving book discovery and exponential awareness. LibreDigital social discovery widgets can propagate to tens of thousands of sites from one placement.

• Powering new devices and marketplaces. LibreDigital now distributes content to over 40 different digital marketplaces including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony.

2010 and beyond

• Enabling a browser-based reader experience with HTML5.

• Building a new social commerce retail partner to expand the market for digital content.