Frequently Asked Questions

We read an entire business book and then boil it down to eight concise pages of the best ideas, strategies and concepts from the entire book. By reading these summaries, you get a top-down view of all the most important insights from the entire book.

Business reviews are where someone gives you their opinion about the book. We don’t do that. We just bring together all the key ideas and insights the book contains and summarize them. It’s up to you to form your own opinion about the quality of the ideas.

8-pages is long enough that you get the meat of the book without information overload. Our twenty years of experience doing this has shown that 8-pages is the optimum length for a book summary. Less than that and you only get a superficial snapshot. Longer than that and you lose sight of the big picture ideas from the book.

It’s clear a full-length 300-page book will contain more information than a 30-minute summary, but that’s OK. If you read a summary first, then you can be sure the full-length book is worth reading in full. Also having a succinct top-down view of the idea flow of the book makes it easier to organize your thinking as you read it. Great win-win scenario for enhanced learning.

We factor in the suggestions of our subscribers in choosing books published in the last 6 months, on a range of business topics that are relevant and interesting for our readers. We are independent of any publishers, so all selections are made by our editorial committee with the aim of picking a variety of the best and brightest business books published each year.

We’ve been going now for about 20 years.

Anyone who wants to get ahead in their career or business. We serve and add value for entrepreneurs, salespeople, small business owners, business managers and business students worldwide.

Our back-issue catalog is a mix. Many early summaries are available in PDF only. Later summaries are available in PDF, Kindle, ePub and MP3 audio format. We’re in the process of making the entire catalog available in all formats.

Everything to do with business. Sales and marketing. Strategy. Management. Future trends. Internet. Creative thinking. Motivational. Innovation. How-to. Biographical. Investing.

To get fresh ideas which will empower you to get ahead. To learn from the mistakes and success of others. To shorten the learning curve. To be inspired and motivated. To improve your skills. To stand out at work. To be able to make good points in business meetings. To be more successful. To get ahead. To read less and do more.