Blinkist is an app that aims to solve a problem I thought only I had: It summarizes thick nonfiction books into digestible summaries that take 15 minutes to read, as opposed to days or weeks. It seems ...
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenSesame, the elearning innovator, announced a partnership with Blinkist to bring 150 business and nonfiction book summaries to its popular OpenSesame Plus ...
I must declare from the outset that when it comes to Blinkist, I was a skeptic. Blinkist, for the uninitiated, is an app-based service that promises to digest the “key insights from 4,500+ ...
When I first heard of Blinkist, a service that breaks down recent nonfiction books to easily digestible snippets and audio, I was afraid it would turn out to be some machine-learning-driven ...
The biggest 2018 trend in the publishing industry across all mediums has been political tell-alls. From Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury back in January right up to Bob Woodward's 1.1 million in unit ...
As sad as it may be, many people just don’t have the time to read these days. When we say ‘read’, we don’t mean 140-character-long rants on Twitter, or 150-word news nuggets on the BBC. We mean books, ...
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Do you own a copy of The Lean Startup? Have you actually read it, or is it in your bedroom or ebook reader, barely touched? This is where Berlin-based startup Blinkist comes in. Aimed squarely at ...
When I was young and cynical, a friend and I came up with a plan to make reading easy. We called it litzak — Muzak for literature — and the idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each.