Nota

Name

Nota

Legal name

Det Kgl. Biblioteks Nota-service

Website

https://nota.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Accessible Library Services

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (51921), Educational Services (611)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Accessible & Alternative Format Materials (Braille, Large Print, Audio, Tactile Graphics) (EDAGAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Accessible Media Production (Alt Formats, Captioning, Audio Description) (EDALAGAC), Special Education & Accessibility-Optimized Media (UDL, AAC, Captioning) (EDAGALAH), Audiobook Localization & Accessibility (Translation, Accents, DAISY/Accessible Formats) (MPAJAIAH)

Keywords

• Accessible library services
• Audiobook lending
• Braille publishing
• Dyslexia support materials
• Accessible educational content

Headquarters

HQ city

Nakskov

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Publicly Funded Library Service: Nota-service is operated by Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) as a government-funded public library service for people with visual or reading disabilities. The service is free for eligible users with documented disabilities. Funding comes from the Danish state through the Royal Library.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Nota-service is a Danish government-funded public library operated by Det Kongelige Bibliotek (The Royal Library) that lends audiobooks, e-books, and Braille books free of charge to citizens with documented visual or reading disabilities. The service supports multiple accessibility formats (Daisy, MP3, EPUB, locked EPUB for protected study materials, PDF, and Braille) and is delivered through a web platform, a dedicated mobile app, and physical CD mail delivery. Local audio newspapers with synthetic speech and an integrated ReadSpeaker text-to-speech engine extend access to current events and web content for the same user base.

Product overview

Nota is a library service operated by the Royal Danish Library (Det Kgl. Bibliotek) that provides accessible reading materials for people with visual impairments or reading disabilities. The service offers a unified platform comprising multiple product types: audiobooks (lydbøger) available in MP3, Daisy, and CD formats; e-books in PDF, scanned, and standard formats; Braille books (punktbøger) in both physical and digital formats; and local audio newspapers. The Nota-service App enables mobile access to the library catalog. A specialized locked study book feature uses DRM-protected EPUB format with Thorium Reader for educational materials. The core offering centers on converting standard reading materials into accessible formats for users with documented disabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nota-service (Audiobooks, E-books, and Braille Books) Central library lending service of Det Kgl. Bibliotek that provides audiobooks (lydbøger), e-books (e-bøger), and Braille books (punktbøger) to Danish residents with documented visual or reading disabilities. Materials are available in Daisy, MP3, EPUB, PDF, and Braille formats, accessible via the nota.dk platform or physical CD mail delivery.
• Nota-service Mobile App Dedicated mobile application that lets users access, download, and listen to or read Nota-service audiobooks, e-books, and Braille materials on iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
• Locked Educational Book (Låst Studiebog) Protected EPUB-format study books intended for higher-education students with documented disabilities. The files require the Thorium Reader reading app and a personal keyword to unlock, preventing illegal sharing while enabling legitimate accessibility.
• Local Audio Newspapers (Lokale Lydaviser) Local Danish newspapers rendered with synthetic text-to-speech audio, distributed through Nota-service to provide users with visual impairments access to current local news.
• Nota Bibliotek (Catalog and Search Platform) Public-facing catalog and search platform (nota.dk/bibliotek) for browsing and locating audiobooks, e-books, Braille books, newspapers, and magazines available through Nota-service. Includes inspiration collections, recommendations, author portraits, themes, and a list of in-production titles.

Named customers8 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ReadSpeakercoreTechnology or IntegrationReadSpeaker (app-eu.readspeaker.com) provides text-to-speech functionality for Nota.dk, allowing users to listen to web page content. Customer ID 13041 is used for this integration, enabling accessibility features across the Nota website.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Claro Software: Provider of assistive technology and accessibility tools (text-to-speech, screen reading, literacy support) serving overlapping disability and education segments — adjacent rather than direct library competitor.

Broad incumbents

• National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS, Library of Congress): US federal program providing free audio and Braille materials to qualifying patrons — the largest publicly funded accessible library globally and a direct functional analogue.
• RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People): UK charity offering accessible library services, audiobooks, and Braille via RNIB Library, alongside broader advocacy and assistive technology — broader mandate but overlapping core accessible-library function.

Direct peers

• Dedicon: Dutch accessible media organization producing audiobooks, Braille, and large-print materials for people with reading disabilities — a strong European peer with a similar state-supported mission.
• Celia (Finnish accessible library): Finland's state-funded accessible library producing audiobooks, Braille, and e-books for print-disabled users — a directly comparable Nordic accessible-library service.
• Bookshare: US-based digital accessible library offering copyrighted content in audio, Braille, and other formats to people with print disabilities — comparable digital-first accessible library at much larger scale.
• SBS (Schweizerische Bibliothek für Blinde, Seh- und Lesebehinderte): Swiss national library for the blind, visually impaired, and reading-disabled, offering audio, Braille, and digital accessible formats — another directly comparable European accessible library.
• Norsk lyd- og blindeskriftbibliotek (NLB): Norway's national library for talking books and Braille, offering free accessible media to eligible users — functionally the closest peer to Nota within the Nordic accessible-library ecosystem.
• MTM (Mediateket / Swedish Agency for Accessible Media): Sweden's national state-funded accessible media agency, providing audiobooks, Braille, and e-books to people with print disabilities — a direct Nordic counterpart to Nota's mandate and operating model.

Others

• DAISY Consortium: Standards body behind the DAISY accessible-book format used by Nota and most national accessible libraries — a peer in the ecosystem sense, defining the format stack Nota's catalogue depends on.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/nota.dk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nota
• Instagraminstagram.com/detkglbibliotek

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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