Love for Livres

What Love for Livres does

Love for Livres is a Paris-headquartered bibliotherapy and reading-wellness company, founded in 2016 and operating as a French SAS with a team of six. It operates across seven European countries and positions itself at the intersection of literature, neuroscience, and mental-wellness, delivering individual emotional reading programs, group workshops, and corporate interventions built around its proprietary KEI (Key Emotion Indicator) methodology. Since inception it has delivered over 150 programs and roughly 200 workshops, reporting a 9/10 average satisfaction score and maintaining a curated database of several thousand books annotated with emotional metadata.

The product surface is diversified: a free emotional book search engine, individual bibliotherapy discovery programs, Thematic Libraries (physical, eco-designed furniture containing curated book selections), the Love for Livres Academy (professional training in the KEI method), the Literary Tarot experience, and the La Cure Littéraire newsletter. Underlying technology is the KEI framework — a registered method that maps books to specific emotional states — supported by advisory expertise in neuropsychology, neuroscience, semiotics, and publishing.

The business model is multi-stream: one-off fees from individual discovery programs, B2B contracts for corporate training and wellness programming (including named relationships with Chanel and Médiathèque de Créteil), hardware sales of Thematic Libraries, recurring revenue from Academy trainees, and EU grant income via the Creative Europe and Erasmus+ programs through the LOE for Good initiative. The customer base spans individual readers, enterprises, public libraries, retailers (e.g., Cultura), and professionals seeking certification.

Name

Love for Livres

Legal name

Love for Livres

Website

https://loveforlivres.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Love for Livres is a Paris-based bibliotherapy company that matches books to emotional states using its proprietary KEI method, serving individual readers, enterprises, libraries, and trained practitioners across seven European countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Individual Discovery Programs: Paid bibliotherapy and personal development programs for individuals, purchasable through the website via Stripe checkout. Programs include topics like resilience, managing uncertainty, public speaking, empathy development, and self-confidence.
2. Corporate and Organizational Training: Customized soft skills and psychosocial skills training programs for companies, public institutions, healthcare organizations, and NGOs. Programs delivered in group or individual formats, live or online.
3. Thematic Libraries: Sale of physical eco-designed themed library furniture (emotions, leadership, parenting, inclusion, climate, peace, etc.) available in three formats: Integrale (custom), En kit (module-based), and En cubes (compact). Optional curated book catalog available. 100% recyclable cardboard material, made in France.
4. Professional Training - Love for Livres Academy: Comprehensive bibliotherapy certification program for healthcare, HR, coaching, consulting, library, and mediation professionals. The Academy shares foundations and practical skills acquired through approximately 200 bibliotherapy workshops across 7 European countries.
5. Affiliate/Partner Book Sales: While the search engine is free, users who purchase books via the platform pay directly on partner websites. This suggests potential affiliate revenue from book sales.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Love for Livres delivers bibliotherapy services centered on an emotion-based book recommendation engine powered by its proprietary KEI (Key Emotion Indicator) method. Its sellable offerings span individual bibliotherapy coaching programs, B2B corporate soft-skills training, turnkey physical thematic libraries (curated book installations), and a certified Academy program for practitioners. The company combines content curation, a proprietary emotion-to-book taxonomy, and service delivery to address personal development and workplace well-being use cases.

Product overview

Love for Livres is a bibliotherapy-focused company offering a digital platform for emotional book discovery alongside physical products and professional training services. The core offering consists of an emotion-based book search engine that recommends books according to readers' emotional states, supplemented by thematic physical libraries (eco-designed furniture with curated book selections), individual bibliotherapy programs, and the Love for Livres Academy professional training certification. Additional products include a Literary Tarot and the La Cure Littéraire monthly newsletter program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Love for Livres Academy: Bibliotherapy training program for healthcare, HR, coaching, consulting, library and mediation professionals.
• Libraries of Emotions for Good (LOE for Good)

Products and services

• Emotional Book Search Engine (KEI-powered)

Quantifiable outcome

• 9/10 satisfaction rating from program participants
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• European Commission - Creative Europe ProgrammecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLibraries of Emotions for Good (LOE for Good) is an innovative European project deploying bibliotherapy across 7 countries to foster social inclusion, strengthen mental health, and build community resilience. Supported by the European Commission's Creative Europe programme, in partnership with European and Tunisian universities and libraries.
• European and Tunisian UniversitiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partners collaborating on the LOE for Good European project for bibliotherapy research and deployment across 7 countries.
• European and Tunisian LibrariescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLibrary partners collaborating on the LOE for Good European project, deploying thematic emotional libraries and bibliotherapy programs.
• Erasmus+minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMentioned as one of the successful projects in partnership with various structures, demonstrating track record of EU-funded educational initiatives.
• ChanelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCorporate partner for bibliotherapy programs and initiatives as part of their diverse project portfolio.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Bibliothérapie (France): French bibliotherapy practitioner network offering workshops and individual sessions for personal development. Regional French peer directly competing in the same therapeutic reading services market.
• The Reader (UK): UK-based charity pioneering bibliotherapy through shared reading groups and partnerships with the NHS, libraries, and care homes. Direct peer offering bibliotherapy interventions for mental health and well-being across institutional and individual users.
• Book Therapy: Bibliotherapy platform founded by Ella Berthoud offering personalized book prescriptions for emotional and psychological needs. Direct competitor combining literary curation with mental health and personal development use cases.

Regional players

• OpenClassrooms: French online education platform offering professional certification programs to individuals and employers. Comparable French-edtech footprint, professional training business model, and Academy-style certification offering.

Broad incumbents

• Skillsoft: Enterprise learning and corporate training incumbent offering soft skills, leadership, and professional development programs to large organizations. Comparable B2B corporate training motion in the soft skills space.
• Goodreads: Amazon-owned social reading platform with the largest book catalog, user reviews, and recommendation features. Broad incumbent with overlapping book discovery functionality, though without Love for Livres' emotional-rating methodology or bibliotherapy programs.
• Calm: Subscription wellness platform serving both consumers and corporate clients with mental health, mindfulness, and resilience content. Overlaps with Love for Livres' corporate soft skills/wellness segment.
• Headspace: Global mental health and wellness platform offering employer B2B programs for stress, resilience, and soft skills development. Comparable B2B motion into enterprise wellness budgets, though delivered via digital content rather than bibliotherapy.

Emerging players

• The StoryGraph: Reader-driven book recommendation platform with mood- and emotion-based filtering, a free book catalog, and personalized recommendations. Comparable product surface to Love for Livres' emotional search engine, with overlapping consumer target market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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