Book Summaries

With life as fast paced and competitive as it is today, who has time to stop by Barnes and Noble, find a 400 page business book, and digest it before the information is outdated?

Not too many! Most entrepreneurs and executives rely on business book summaries to give them the skinny within eight pages - a boiled down zero fluff and filler detailed account of what the meat of the book is. Book summaries are fast emerging as the top tool of choice to help men and women gain a competitive edge by learning new skills and sharpening old ones in record time.

A book summary is a 5,000 word synopsis that highlights and gives you working knowledge the book’s main points. Books on tape are also available in audio CD formats for listening to on personal computers and pocket PC handheld devices.

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Book Summaries help busy businesspeople to keep current with trends that are important to them - from sales to finances. They ensure you get a well-rounded education in a fraction of the time it takes to read a hardcover or paperback book. Not only do you save time reading book summaries, but you also save money, too. Book summaries are less expensive than a hard cover or paper back book.

It's like having a virtual assistant go to continuing education classes for you. They attend class, listen to the hour-long lecture, and sum up what you need to know in 5 minutes or less. A book summary is similar to that. Once you read one, you'll find that you will keep coming back again and again.

Why Use Book Summaries

You say the Summaries give you ideas and techniques you can use on the job to get better results. How else do people use Summaries---Our readers often surprise us when they tell us how they use our Summaries. For example, they give them as gifts to friends or colleagues, they use them to help subordinates improve their skills, and they use them to make points authoritatively at meetings. Perhaps most importantly, subscribers use Soundview as an executive book-screening service.

In what formats are the Summaries available---Our summaries are available through the mail in print and audio CD formats, and online in formats for printing, viewing, or listening to on personal computers, Palm and Pocket PC handheld devices, and MP3 players. Click here for more specific information on our available online formats.

What kinds of topics do the Summaries and reviews cover---If it's of interest to business people, we cover it. These include the usual suspects like management books, books on finance or manufacturing, economics, sales, small business, career and success techniques, etc. But we also occasionally cover books on topics that affect all business people, like health care, the environment, politics, and so on.