Sunder Rajan, founder of Just Books, is using technology to bring libraries back to the people.
Sunder Rajan, a software engineer from Bangalore, had a bright idea. He hated travelling miles to access a library. So, in May 2008, he decided to start one near his house with the help of his wife. This was the beginning of Just Books. He thought it would be a good part-time run, but he was surprised when he got 1,000 members in three months. He shrugged it off as the initial excitement about a library in the neighbourhood. But after another three months when his fledgling library grew to 2,000 members, Rajan knew he had stumbled onto something. He decided to make it his full-time job. Today, his company has 22 libraries all over India with a revenue of approximately Rs. 4 crore.
Read more: http://business.in.com/article/work-in-progress/reading-made-easy-why-just-books-libraries-work/25832/1#ixzz1PJaf0xmK
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Picture of the front of a different Just Books location
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Inside one of the locations:
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