An online library now that allows readers to borrow books online and have them delivered to your doorstep within a matter of 24 hours. With a one time registration fee of Rs 499 and a refundable deposit of Rs 499, you can choose a billing plan that allows you to choose books depending on your pace of reading. Charges range from Rs 139/month (for those who want to read three books a month) to Rs 3,000/month (which allows you to borrow 12 books). You can see that library through this URL http://www.librarywala.com/web/Index.aspx
Hiten Turakhia, one of the founders of this library, says he and five other friends were inspired by their college days struggle to get books. Everybody would chip in Rs100 to get reading material for their courses. Sitting at a coffee shop lat year decided to make it easier for today’s generation. Thus librarywala.com was born.
The library six founder members have expertise in related fields like IT, marketing and management. Their market-savvy has clearly paid off, in over two months since its launch.
The website, which is currently operational only in Mumbai with 8,000 titles, hopes to extend its operations to Bangalore and Pune by next year.
As professionals we should think that behind of their inspiration because they are not LIS professionals still they are providing a kind of information service without knowing of fundamental knowledge of regarding fields. As we know we can do such things to improve the library services in an innovative way.
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Hi Asoka,
This is Dinesh this side on behalf Librarywala.com. We are really happy to see your blog post about us. We had just started our services in 2007 and after 4 years we are happy to share with you that we have more than 22,000 paper back books & more than 15,000 customers in Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune.
We have also come up with our services in Mysore starting 1st April, 2011. We would like you to join us as one of our first customers!
Kindly provide me with your contact details at dinesh@creativaindia.in & we shall get in touch with you asap. Thanks a ton!
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