Perlego

Perlego, founded in 2016 by Cambridge graduates, operates a digital library subscription platform that gives learners unlimited access to more than 1.3 million academic, professional and non-fiction ebooks under a single subscription. The company was established in response to the high cost of textbooks, and its stated mission is to make education more accessible; it also commits to fairly compensating publishers and authors and to reducing reliance on printed textbooks.

The platform rests on several technical domains: digital library infrastructure, search technology, content aggregation, subscription management and edtech. Its product set includes the Perlego Digital Library itself, Smart Search, a study tool for searching and learning across the catalogue, and Study Guides, produced by Masters and PhD experts. The catalogue draws on over 5,000 academic publisher partners and covers more than 1,000 topics.

Content is available in seven languages - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and Swedish - and the company operates worldwide, with a presence in the United Kingdom. Its work sits at the intersection of education, higher education, academic publishing, elearning and professional development.