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Top Business Summaries

Develper Name: Renkara Media Group, Inc.

Released on: 2009-06-08T10:24:16Z

Price: FREE

File Size (Bytes): 1375274

Supported Devices: all

version: 1.4.0

Category: Business, Travel

Rating: 4+

Description: These Soundview Summaries cover the books' main points and highlights and gives you a working knowledge of the latest business practices. A Summary isn't merely a digest or excerpts strung together, it's a seamless document that reads (and holds your interest) like a magazine article. Summaries not only save you time and money; they keep you abreast of the latest ideas and techniques, and they help you decide whether a book is worth reading in its entirety.

FEATURES
5,000 word summary of each title in text format.
20-minute audio summary of each title available for download.
Captures all of the key points of the original book.
All titles have been chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as among the best 30 books of the year in which they were published.
Application remembers your current page for each summary so you don't lose your place between sessions.
Three text sizes, including a large print size.
Night mode can be turned on to make the text easier on your eyes in dim light conditions.
Flip pages with the swipe of a finger or the touch of a button.
Your current position in each audio summary is also saved between sessions.
Built-in audio player works just like the iPod audio player.
Volume is customizable within the application.

Top Business Summaries Vol. I

BLINK by Malcolm Gladwell: Blink is about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant \u2014 in the blink of an eye \u2014 that actually aren't as simple as they seem, and about those instantaneous decisions that are impossible to explain to others. In this summary, staff writer from The New Yorker Malcolm Gladwell reveals that great decision makers aren't those who process the most information or spend the most time deliberating, but those who have perfected the art of "thin-slicing" \u2014 filtering the very few factors that matter from an overwhelming number of variables.

WHAT GOT YOU HERE WON'T GET YOU THERE by Marshall Goldsmith: The corporate world is full of intelligent and skilled executives, but few will ever reach the top, and according to Goldsmith, subtle nuances make the difference. He details the 20 habits that may be holding you back and provides solutions.

WIKINOMICS by Don Tapscott & Anthony Williams: Using the collaborative-software "wiki" concept as their theme, the authors address how the Internet's social network offers new, decentralized ways to produce content, goods, services and profit.

ABOUT SOUNDVIEW
Soundview works closely with the leading business book publishers to offer summaries of the 30 best business books of the year to it's more than 100,000 worldwide subscribers. Soundview offers summaries in print, audio and digital formats for delivery by mail and online. And now they offer topic-based summary collections designed for the iPhone\u00ae and iPod Touch\u00ae. On the web at www.summary.com.

ABOUT RENKARA MEDIA GROUP
Renkara Media Group, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is a leading provider of education and entertainment software for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since the release of the iPhone SDK, it specializes in applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, particularly in the development of education, entertainment, and reference products.