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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Reading books is proven to reduce stress, can make you happier and healthier, and is ultimately an investment in your own personal development. Despite this, a huge amount of Americans also say that ...

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 ...

Growth Story is a new four-question format we’re doing about startups finding and influencing a defining metric that helped really grow their company. This week the CEO and co-founder of Blinkist, ...

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.