Marxists Internet Archive

Name

Marxists Internet Archive

Legal name

Marxists Internet Archive

Website

https://marxists.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Library / Online Archive

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (51921), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC), Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), Public Media Archives, Libraries & Content Preservation (MPABADAL)

Keywords

• Digital library archive
• Marxist literature collection
• Multilingual political texts
• Open access publishing
• Nonprofit online archive

Headquarters

HQ city

Pacifica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations: Monetary donations from the public, accepted via PayPal or by money order. The MIA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, making U.S. donations tax-deductible.
2. Book Sales: Sale of published books through Marxists Internet Archive Publications, distributed by Erythrós Press and Media. Physical books are sold at prices ranging from $15-$25 plus shipping.
3. Volunteer Labor: The archive is maintained by volunteers who donate their time and labor, representing an in-kind contribution to operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Marxists Internet Archive is an all-volunteer, non-profit digital public library that hosts the complete works of nearly 1,000 Marxist and related writers across 83 languages, comprising over 400,000 documents totaling 1.1 TB of data. All digital content is freely accessible via marxists.org, with additional offerings including downloadable eBooks in multiple formats, audiobooks, a Marxist encyclopedia/glossary, and physical books sold through Erythrós Press and Media at $15-$25.

Product overview

The Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) is an all-volunteer, non-profit digital public library established in 1998, offering a comprehensive archive platform for Marxist and Marxist-relevant texts. The core platform (marxists.org) provides access to writings from nearly 1000 authors across 83 languages, comprising over 400,000 documents. The product portfolio includes the core archive platform with search functionality, an eBooks collection offering multiple downloadable formats (EPUB, MOBI, PDF), audio books, MIA Publications (physical and digital books sold via Erythrós Press), the Encyclopedia of Marxism reference section, Subject Archives organized by theme, and Language Sections providing content in multiple languages. The platform serves researchers, students, and activists worldwide, averaging 3.3 million visitors per month as of 2022, with all materials either in the public domain or released under Creative Commons License.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Marxists Internet Archive Core Platform A comprehensive digital public library archive containing writings from nearly 1,000 authors across 83 languages, comprising over 400,000 documents (1.1 TB) spanning 200 years of Marxist and Marxist-related thought; freely accessible to researchers, students, and the general public.
• eBooks Collection

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Mirror SitesminorOthersMIA maintains a network of mirror sites worldwide that replicate and distribute the archive's content, improving global access and providing redundancy.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library archiving web pages, books, audio, video, and software. It is directly comparable to MIA as a large-scale, free, volunteer-and-donation-supported digital archive providing public access to materials that would otherwise be difficult to locate.
• HathiTrust: HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and access platform shared by academic and research libraries, offering millions of digitized books and journals. It is directly comparable to MIA in providing long-term preservation and access to scholarly/public-domain materials.
• Open Library: Open Library, an Internet Archive project, aims to create a free, digital, open library of every book ever published. It is directly comparable to MIA in offering free access to a broad corpus of book-length works with metadata and discovery functionality for researchers and general users.
• Wikisource: Wikisource is a free, volunteer-built online digital library of source texts in many languages that are in the public domain or have been released under a free license. It is directly comparable to MIA as a multilingual, volunteer-driven open-access repository of historical and literary texts.
• Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is a volunteer-led digital library offering free public domain eBooks in multiple formats and languages. It is directly comparable to MIA's mission of free public access to public-domain literary/scholarly works with multi-format distribution (EPUB, MOBI, PDF).

Broad incumbents

• Google Books: Google Books is a large-scale commercial platform indexing and providing access to scanned books with both free and paid views. It is broadly comparable to MIA as a digital book discovery and access platform, though on a vastly larger and commercial scale.
• JSTOR: JSTOR is a large digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources operated on a subscription/access model. It overlaps with MIA's scholarly content domain but offers the original scholarly publishing ecosystem rather than free, public-domain alternatives.

Emerging players

• Public Domain Review: The Public Domain Review is a non-profit project devoted to exploring public-domain works through curated essays, images, and digitized materials. It is comparable to MIA in providing curated engagement around public-domain cultural and historical content with a non-commercial, scholarly orientation.
• Library Genesis (LibGen): Library Genesis is a widely used shadow library offering free access to millions of scholarly books and articles. While its legal status differs, it is comparable to MIA in serving users seeking free access to scholarly/academic texts not easily available through conventional channels.
• Standard Ebooks: Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces beautifully formatted free public-domain eBooks. It is comparable to MIA's eBooks collection in offering high-quality, free, public-domain literary works with attention to typographic quality and multiple formats.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/108072092554528
• Xx.com/marxists_org
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/comunista

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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