LIBRERIA TEMIS

What LIBRERIA TEMIS does

LIBRERIA TEMIS, operating under the parent legal entity Editorial Temis S.A., is a Colombian legal publishing house and bookstore headquartered in Bogotá. Founded in 1950 and celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2025, the company specializes in editing, publication, and retail distribution of legal and academic texts covering constitutional, civil, criminal, administrative, labor, commercial, tax, and procedural law, alongside broader humanities and social sciences titles. Its core products are physical books and downloadable eBooks, sold through a WooCommerce-based e-commerce platform (libreriatemis.com) and a physical retail bookstore in central Bogotá at Calle 12 B # 6 – 45, with the editorial headquarters at Calle 17 # 68 D – 46.

The business operates a direct-to-consumer model with self-serve e-commerce as the primary go-to-market motion, supporting multiple payment methods including credit/debit cards, PSE bank transfers, Efecty/Baloto payments, and cash-on-delivery. Unit pricing dominates: physical books range from approximately $4 to over $100 USD, eBooks from $3 to $40 USD, with discounts of 5–50% applied periodically. Gift cards and promotional bundle packs (Packs promocionales) serve as supplementary revenue streams. Customers span three identified segments — legal professionals and law students (primary), academic institutions and libraries, and government and judicial entities — with marketing executed primarily through email newsletters and organic social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Domestic logistics are handled via Inter Rapidísimo as the core courier partner.

Ownership is privately held with no external venture capital or private equity involvement disclosed; Editorial Temis S.A. wholly owns its subsidiary Librería Temis S.A. Headcount is reported at 1-10 employees, indicating a small, lean operation. There are no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, or restructuring events on record. The company emphasizes its PCI Compliance certification as a security differentiator, claimed to be the only such certification in Latin America for an e-commerce payment platform in this category.

Name

LIBRERIA TEMIS

Legal name

Editorial Temis S.A.

Website

https://libreriatemis.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1950

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Librería Temis is a Bogotá-based Colombian legal publishing house and bookstore founded in 1950, selling physical books and eBooks on Colombian law to legal professionals, law students, academic institutions, and government entities through its e-commerce platform and a single physical retail location.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Book Publishing and Retail

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Book Retailers and News Dealers (459210)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) Sales & Merchandising (Publisher Stores, Bundles) (MPAJAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

E-books, Digital Content & Licensing Distribution (CRAOALAE)

Keywords

• Legal publishing
• Law books retail
• Juridical publications
• Legal academic texts
• Specialty bookstore

Headquarters

HQ city

Bogotá

HQ country

Colombia

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Physical Book Sales: Sale of printed legal and academic books through e-commerce platform and physical bookstore. Books are sold individually at various price points ranging from approximately $3 to over $100 USD equivalent.
2. eBook Digital Sales: Sale of digital books in electronic format. Customers can download eBooks after purchase with instructions provided on how to use them.
3. Gift Cards: Gift cards available for purchase at the physical bookstore with variable denominations and 6-month validity after activation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

LIBRERIA TEMIS is a Colombian legal publishing house and online bookstore that sells physical books and digital eBooks covering all major areas of Colombian and comparative law, including constitutional, civil, criminal, administrative, labor, commercial, tax, procedural, and international law. The company operates under the Editorial Temis S.A. parent brand and supplements its book sales with gift cards and promotional bundle packs distributed through its e-commerce website and a physical bookstore in Bogotá.

Product overview

Librería Temis operates as a Colombian legal publishing house and online bookstore specializing in juridical and law-related literature. The core offering consists of physical books and e-books covering comprehensive legal subject areas including Constitutional and Political Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Administrative Law, Labor Law, Commercial Law, Tax Law, and Procedural Law. The company distributes publications under its own Editorial Temis brand alongside titles from partner publishers. The business model combines direct retail sales through its e-commerce platform with complementary products including gift cards (Tarjetas de regalo TEMIS) and promotional bundle packs (Packs promocionales).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Physical Legal Books (Libros físicos)

Quantifiable outcome

• Wide product range covering multiple legal disciplines and sub-specialties

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Inter RapidísimocoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorInter Rapidísimo is the designated courier and logistics partner responsible for shipping orders outside of Bogotá. They handle order fulfillment and delivery tracking. Customers can track shipments via Inter Rapidísimo's website or by contacting their customer service line. This partnership is essential for domestic order delivery throughout Colombia.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• vLex: Emerging legal AI and legal information platform with growing Latin American presence including Colombia. Represents the digital-first, AI-enabled direction the legal publishing industry is moving, and is increasingly relevant as a competitor to traditional legal publishers like Temis.

Direct peers

• Editorial Tirant lo Blanch: Spanish legal publisher with strong presence in Latin America publishing legal treatises, codes, and academic law books in Spanish. Directly comparable product (Spanish-language legal books) and partially overlapping customer base (Spanish-speaking academics and professionals).
• Editorial Jurídica de Colombia: Colombian legal publisher with catalog of legal codes, jurisprudence, and academic works. Directly competes with Temis in the same Colombian legal publishing market for institutional and academic customers.
• Editorial Dykinson: Spanish academic publisher with significant legal and social sciences catalog, including Spanish-language legal works. Comparable Spanish-language legal/academic publishing business with overlapping read-from-LATAM audience.
• Grupo Editorial Ibáñez: Colombian legal publisher specializing in jurisprudence, codes, and academic legal commentary. Closely comparable niche (Spanish-language legal publishing) and overlapping target market (law students, professors, legal professionals in Colombia).
• Legis editores (Legis S.A.): Colombian legal publisher and information provider operating in the same Colombian legal publishing market with books, digital subscriptions, and legal databases. Highly directly comparable as the largest Colombian legal publisher and the most direct competitor for Temis's institutional and student segments.

Regional players

• Editorial Hammurabi: Brazilian legal publisher with catalog of legal codes, treatises, and academic works. Comparable niche legal publishing business model serving a different Latin American country, useful as a regional comparable for Temis's potential LATAM expansion.

Broad incumbents

• Thomson Reuters (Legal - Latin America): Global legal information provider with legal publishing, databases, and software for legal professionals across LATAM. Broad incumbent offering institutional digital legal subscriptions that increasingly compete with print and eBook legal publishers like Temis in large law firms and government entities.
• LexisNexis (Latin America): Global legal information provider with Latin American legal content, databases, and publications. Broad incumbent whose digital legal platforms compete directly with traditional legal publishers in the institutional segment Temis serves.
• Wolters Kluwer (Legal & Regulatory - Latin America): Global legal publisher and information provider operating in LATAM with legal software, databases, and books. Broad incumbent in legal publishing that competes for institutional budgets and increasingly squeezes niche legal publishers like Temis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/temiseditorial
• Facebookfacebook.com/temiseditorial
• Instagraminstagram.com/temis_sa

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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