Cliffs Notes 2.0
The fine art of avoiding book-reading just entered the 21st Century. The WikiSummaries site has already summarized 295 literary works in easy-reading language for lazy students, bored business-folk, and speed-readers.
The site already features user-generated wiki-versions of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, The Tipping Point, and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Wikipedia provides a similar function on a larger scale, including spoilers for books, movies, and biographies.
Over at TeleRead, one writer wonders what these wiki-sites mean for publishers: “If these books can be summarized so easily, why bother reading (or buying) them? To succeed as a book (in every sense of the word), you have to provide a book experience which defy easy summaries. You read for style, narrative, anecdotes, verbal wit, suspense and specificity of detail.”
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