1,163 publishers. Real contacts. Real submission links. A gift to every author who was told the door was closed.
A lot of people teach in villages. They join Teach For India. They try to help one person at a time. We believe you can create the same impact — at scale. Build something that helps thousands of authors find their publisher, for free, forever.
If you'd like to take this from us and build it into something full — more than we ever imagined — come work with us. We'll share it, build it together, and figure out how to sustain it. The directory stays free. Everything else is a conversation.
You can give your time. Your skills. Or simply share it with one author who needs it.
BookVani is the first. The idea is simple — find the markets where information is hidden, paywalled, or simply missing, especially in the Global South. Build the directory. Give it away. Do it again.
We call these gap marketplaces. They clearly should exist. They don't. So we're building them — one per week, open source, free forever.
A close friend, Kunal, had a great job at Amazon. He quit to teach underprivileged children in villages. Noble? Absolutely. Scalable? No.
That question — "what if we used technology, the biggest lever we have, to create impact at scale?" — led to GapMarketplaces. A thesis that every information gap is a marketplace opportunity.
We built GapDoc — a medical travel startup connecting patients with affordable, verified healthcare abroad. Now we're doing the same for publishing. Taking information that's already out there — scattered, unorganised, overwhelming — and making it obvious, curated, and free.
We identified the publishers who actually respond. Verified them. Organised them. Made the intelligence accessible. We've done the homework so you don't have to.
BookVani is a project of Mahabir Group, founded by Saurabh Maskara — entrepreneur, founder, and author.