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Libro.fm encourages more people to read while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Libro.fm is an employee-owned Social Purpose Corporation that shares profits from your audiobook purchases with your chosen bookstore, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy.

Collage of booksellers

Libro.fm began as a conversation among friends at Third Place Books, a local bookstore in Seattle, Washington, about the growing popularity of audiobooks and the lack of a way for readers to purchase them from independent bookstores.

Flash forward, and Libro.fm was founded in 2014. The team then spent nearly two years speaking with booksellers about their needs and suggestions, while also building our catalog of audiobooks and developing our platform, including iOS and Android apps.

Today, Libro.fm partners with more than 3,000 bookstores around the world to sell audiobooks and has members in 90 countries and counting.

How Libro.fm works

We care about supporting small businesses because we are a small business.

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Danny

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Irwin

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Julia

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Kay

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Louise

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Madison

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Mark

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Marta

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Mike

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Nick

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Natalie

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Olivia

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Waleed

The values that guide us:

Purpose drives us.

Supporting our local bookstores and economies is the common mission that brings our team together.

We amplify historically excluded voices.

We are committed to investing in booksellers and authors that are people of color, disabled, and/or LGBTQIA+, and elevate their work throughout our website, app, and marketing communications.

We are humans, not bots.

We’re real people that listen to our customers.

Integrity drives us to do the right thing.

We work to earn the trust of bookselling partners and customers every day.

We seek to grow.

We are committed to learning; evolution can be challenging, but is critical to our growth and development.

We keep it balanced.

We work tirelessly towards our vision while striving to balance fun and life outside of work.

We are a Social Purpose Corporation

As a Social Purpose Corporation and 100% employee-owned company, we pursue both social and financial goals in the for-profit context, even if those social goals may at times conflict with the corporation’s financial interests. We release an annual report outlining our efforts and progress.

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