Startup Showcase: Biblioboard
A place for beautiful, curated historical artifacts
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Brian Howard
Once content sets are created and made available for sale on the BiblioBoard app, the company shares revenue with the creating institutions. Libraries can also subscribe to BiblioBoard as a database and allow patrons access to the content. "Everything that the library subscribes to shows up on the patron's tablet," says Davis. "And there's no concept of check-out and returns and all the other things that force libraries to deliver a chunky experience on a tablet."
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