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I sure do wish I had known about business book summary services when I was doing my MBA.

Back a few years ago I spent two years in an MBA program. Although I don’t regret it at all, in retrospect I will say that it was truly one of the most challenging periods in my life.

It was in one of those “executive” MBA programs and the dynamics were different from taking an MBA program straight after an undergraduate degree. More stressful I would say.

It was one of those programs where you did your MBA studies at night and on weekends while continuing to work in your full-time job. Classes were on weekends and there were typically 15 to 25 hours of assignments and casework outside of class and each week. Also, since by definition all of the other students had been out in the real working world for an average of 15 years or more, it was highly competitive as well. Most of them were type A, high achiever types. Talk about constant pressure for two years!

In any case, I recall that one of the most time-consuming tasks was to try to get through all of the assigned reading every week. And, not all of the reading was from academic textbooks. Because it was a real-world business course, many of the books that we were required to read were current public domain business books. So, during that period I spent almost every lunch hour with a sandwich in one hand and a book in the other, just trying to keep up with the reading.

By the second year, out of necessity, I had started developing my own personalized business book summaries. I would condense important books down into 15 to 20 page point-form summaries in my word processor. Once a couple of members in my case group saw these they wanted their own copies, and within days just about everyone in our two classes were using my business book summaries. The common refrain soon became, “…has he done a summary of the book [whatever title] yet?”.

If only I had known then what I know now about business book summary services! I would have subscribed to one of these in a nanosecond. It would have been worth every penny in terms of time saved and reduced stress.

It is possible that business book summary services didn’t exist to the extent or level of sophistication that they now do online. In fact, since those were the early days of the Internet I’ll assume that they didn’t exist then. However, since then things have changed.

There are a number of book summary services available online. A few that used to exist have closed down in the past few years. However, in this particular niche, I only feel comfortable recommending one book summary service because it is so far superior to any other that I know of…

Executive Business Book Summaries
Get Abstract maintains a library of thousands of professionally created summaries of the top management and business books and articles. Their summaries are created on an ongoing basis by professional writers and subject matter experts. Their summaries allow you to quickly and easily stay up-to-date with the latest developments and learn from the best business books ever published.
www.GetAbstract.com

Users of getAbstract book summaries are the best-read, most expert players on the business scene today. Their mission is to provide managers and executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. They deliver this knowledge in concise summaries of the latest, sharpest and most relevant books. Their summaries are available in English, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, French and Portuguese.
So, if you are an executive, manager, or entrepreneur who is too busy to read a lot of books but you need to be up-to-date with the latest thinking, you need getAbstract…
www.GetAbstract.com


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Book Summary Sites – The Top 10


Many people search online every day for “book summaries”. These searchers can be divided into three main groups: business people, students, and special interest groups.

So, as a service to my visitors, I have researched and compiled what I consider to be the Top 10 (or so) “book summary sites” that are listed with the top search engines: www.google.com, www.msn.com, and www.yahoo.com.

The sites listed below are ranked in order of importance (from top to bottom of page) based on the www.alexa.com traffic rankings that were assigned to them on the day I did the research. Generally speaking, alexa.com rankings are an excellent proxy for both the popularity and quality-of-content, of a given Web site.

Business People

getAbstract Business Book Summaries

getAbstract provides the key insights from 20,000+ of the best nonfiction books, articles and video talks summarized into 10-minute summaries. Millions of readers worldwide use getAbstract to get all the benefits of reading in just a few minutes a day. Get personalized reading recommendations and follow expert-curated channels in topics such as business, productivity, leadership, personal development, health, science & technology, and more.
www.getabstract.com

Students

Research Assistance

This site which claims to be the best single research source online maintains an inventory of more than 25,000 research reports on thousands of subjects; many of which are book summaries. Most are available for immediate download. If your subject isn’t already in their archives, they will do custom research and writing for you. You can download existing papers and/or order custom research papers 24 Hours a Day!
www.research-assistance.com

PinkMonkey.com Summaries and Study Guides…

In the past, your parents used Cliff Notes ™ book summaries to understand complex literature. Now, thanks to the Internet PinkMonkey.com offers 450+ Free Book Notes..
www.pinkmonkey.com

Free Book Notes.com – Free Cliff Notes, Summaries & Study Guides

A comprehensive guide to free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides for over 1600 books…
www.freebooknotes.com

eLibraryHub – InfoMall: Book Summaries Search

Search Book Summaries. You may search for a specific book summary by filling in any of these fields:. Title. Author. Subject…
www.elibraryhub.com

Jiffynotes.com

Claims to be the premier free source for literary analysis on the Web. Provides for better understanding of classic and contemporary Literature Profiles, Metaphor Analysis, Theme Analyses, and Author Biographies.
www.jiffynotes.com

Special Interest

Nursing Book Summaries

Top 50 Nursing Books every nursing student should read on a wide variety of nursing and health care related topics.
www.lvntorn.net

Christian Book Summaries

5000 word summary of new books, designed to give the reader an understanding of its core content. Notification service by free subscription or view archives…
www.christianbooksummaries.com


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