Bookmate is a social ebook subscription service, available primarily on mobile, with catalogues in 9 languages.[2] The mobile app is supported on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and feature phones, and the service is also available in a web version.[3]
History
Bookmate was created in 2007 by three former employees of the Russian edition of Look At Me - programmers Andrei Zotov and Egor Khmelev and designer Kirill Ten. In its first version, Bookmate was an aggregator and search engine for bookstores, offering the user the best price. In 2009, the creators relaunched it as a book reading app with search as one of its functions. By 2010, Bookmate had a library of classic literature, contracts with publishers for electronic releases of contemporary works, and a paid subscription to a book club with social mechanics.[4][5]