Each week, Summaries.Com prepares an 8-page executive summary of the best ideas and concepts from a business book. The executive summary is e-mailed to you every Monday evening. You can read the summary in about 15 minutes right from your computer screen, or print it to read while you're travelling, waiting for an appointment or at home in your study.

What's the difference between a summary and a review?

A review tells you about the book, while a summary picks out the key points and ignores all the filler information many business writers pad out their books with. A summary captures the essence of the book -- the main thrust of what has been written.

What does it cost?

An investment of only US$3 per week if you subscribe from month to month - no minimum period, start and stop as you decide.

Or, the best-value subscription offer is a 1-year subscription (52 business book summaries) for a US$100 investment -- that's $1.92 per week.

What are the benefits?

You gain a competitive advantage.
Each week, you'll be exposed to new business ideas, concepts and strategies. You'll be up to date with the latest in business thinking -- and therefore, less likely to be unaware of changes in the competitive business environment.

You get new business ideas which can be put into practice immediately.
Since the ideas are presented to you in summary format, it is much easier to see how they can be adapted to your specific requirements. You can spend more time putting ideas into action, and less time plowing through pages of a book.

Your business confidence will increase.
Whenever your associates are discussing something which has been published in a new business book, you'll be able to contribute to the conversation. That will enhance your image.

You will remember more and learn more.
Numerous studies have shown that you will actually remember more ideas by reading a summary than you will by reading the entire book. It's the quality / quantity trade-off -- a concise summary identifies the key points and leaves out irrelevant filler, letting you focus more clearly on key issues.

You'll save more than 100 hours of reading time -- each month.
And importantly, you won't spend 20 - 30 hours reading a new business book, only to find at the end of that time the book doesn't really provide anything new -- or isn't actually applicable to your field.
  

Which books have
been summarized?

Summaries.Com has now summarized more than 300 business books, and a new summary is added each week.

Please Click Here to visit our back-issue catalog for a complete list of the books we've summarized in the past.

Are there any
samples to look at?

Three sample book summaries are available for you to study. Download them to your own computer, and read them on screen or print them on your printer.

Please Click Here to go to the samples page.

Can back-issue
summaries
be purchased?

Certainly. Summaries.Com subscribers can purchase any summary previously published.

Please Click Here to go to the back-issue catalog order form.
  

Can subscribers choose the summaries they are sent?

Yes, if they want to, but they don't have to. There are actually three ways subscribers can configure a subscription to Summaries.Com:
  

• Plan A -- Automatic New Summaries
  Subscribers automatically receive the new summary being released that week.
    
• Plan B -- Personalized Subscription
  Subscribers specify which summaries they will be sent, mixing new summaries with back-issue summaries from the catalog.
    
• Plan C -- On Demand Subscription
  Subscribers purchase a block of summaries of their choice, to be sent only when requested.
    

Subscribers can swap between plans whenever they like. The subscription investment for each option is the same.