YouScribe 3A

Convertible loan
The biggest digital library in Europe and Africa
€546,808
total amount raised
This campaign ended

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YouScribe wants to become the Netflix of reading and aims to bring access to leisure and knowledge to hundreds of millions of French speakers who are deprived of it.


YouScribe project


In most developing countries, access to reading, culture and knowledge is rare, difficult and expensive. Considering the digital transformation as a main opportunity to accelerate emergence YouScribe provides one alternative response to these high expectations.


Reading in mobile era UNESCO – 2014

YouScribe dedicates digital technologies to improve creativity and promote cultural heritage. The need for efficient, lean, accessible and easy-to-use learning technologies has never been higher. This is where YouScribe makes a huge step towards the democratisation of knowledge.

YouScribe develops the greatest digital library to change the way people read around the world. Our technologic innovations gather the Culture and Education stakeholders. YouScribe library streams more than 1M ebooks, press titles, audio books and documents and it adds more references everyday. YouScribe offers solutions for publishing and distribution to promote digital inclusion.

YouScribe aims to address knowledge quality opportunities with its digital collections and holistic cultural community approach. It is scaling up the digitalisation of contents and resources for a better accessibility and visibility.

Product


YouScribe library is « mobile-first » through a responsive website and an Android and iOS mobile application with an offline reading mode (like Spotify).

Users can access unlimited titles to over 250 publishers, including Editis (First, Bordas, Nathan,…), Eyrolles, Presses Universitaires de France, Bayard, Média Participation (Dupuis, Dargaud, Lombard,…) Imav Editions (Le Petit Nicolas,…), Primento, Académie Royale de Belgique, Alice Edition, Renaissance du livre… and many African editors from Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, Benin, Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Gabon,…

YouScribe has recently also offered reading for English-speaking audiences through English and American editors (Orca Books Publishers, Open Road Integrated Media, The African Books Collective, Lukeman…).

YouScribe gives access to a vast library of ebooks, audiobooks, documents, comics and press titles.