The ownership map
Who owns it
Every owner, parent company, and household this site has documented sitting above the tools your library runs. The patron sees a friendly app. Here is who sits above it. Each one links to the filing.
KKRPrivate equity
- OverDriveowns Libby / Sora, the rails your patrons read on
- Simon & Schusterowns the books you license back
- Amplifysells analytics built from your patrons’ reading
One owner, both sides of the deal.
Read the filing →Francisco PartnersPrivate equity
- bought Follett School Solutionsin 2021, its K-12 software and content division
- Destinyruns in 75,000+ K-12 schools worldwide, by Follett’s own count
A market-leading school library system, now owned by private equity.
Source: American Libraries →Baker & TaylorChapter 11
- Boundless / LibraryOnesold for $750,000
- the buyeris the ex-B&T team that built it
A digital lending platform for less than a warehouse building.
Read the filing →The Stephens householdUtah
- RatedBooks.orgpopularized the “this book is porn” report
- S&S Apps, LLCsells the $5 NarraTrue scanner that fills it
The reports and the scanner trace to one address.
Read the filing →Librar LabsY Combinator
- Librar Labspitches districts an AI layer over the school library
- the filingtraces who is behind it and where the money came from
The library was the wedge into the school.
Read the filing →BookmarkEDTexas vendor
- BookmarkEDsells districts a “book intelligence” compliance dashboard
- $130,000+across Texas, with under 0.04% parent uptake
A six-figure spend to remove books, not to serve parents.
Read the filing →This map grows with the work. Each entry is drawn from the filing it links to, and every claim there carries its source. Spotted an owner we have missed, or a structure that changed? Reach me through the About page.