Startup Showcase: Biblioboard
A place for beautiful, curated historical artifacts
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Brian Howard
"We didn't do much with digital in the early days," says Davis, "because most of the devices were E Ink and we just didn't think they would do justice to historical artifacts. The iPad changed all of that."
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The company's first digital product, The British Library's 19th Century Historical Books app (which made the institution's 65,000 digitized books from that period available globally to subscribers), was launched in 2011. It was downloaded 250,000 times in its first two weeks of availability and has tens of thousands of users.
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