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 ...

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 ...

If you want to change, you have to change your habits. Specifically seven of them. It’s more effective to improve your character than to learn skills as a “shortcut.” Shift your paradigm. Someone’s ...

If you want to read a lot of important nonfiction books, but just don’t have the time, Blinkist can help. It’s an app that simplifies and spits out key points from important nonfiction books. Remember ...

Web/iOS: If you can't find the time to read the whole book, Blinkist takes you through the most important parts of non-fiction writing. The app is entirely human-powered, summarizing learnings from ...

There might be no dearth of apps that lets you go through eBooks or audiobooks. However, here is one – the Blinkist app for Android and iOS. The way the app functions is it provides users with a short ...

We are living in the information age, but that doesn’t mean that we have all the time in the world to ingest everything that we want. A startup that is aiming to help with that has raised a round of ...

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.

Whenever I pass through the Smart Thinking section of a bookshop, I invariably think of the Italian writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Calasso, who died in 2021, was an author of many ...

An app seeks the outermost limits of productivity. By Rosa Lyster The Instagram algorithm has developed some strange ideas about me. For example, it has decided that I might dream of owning shoes made ...

Apple has two problems with its spoken word ventures. On the audiobook front, Amazon has a near-monopoly with Audible. On the podcast front, they are facing intense competition from Amazon and Spotify ...