It’s always the same: There is never enough time to read a book, especially one that is business related. We always get recommendations from friends, colleagues, family: “You have to read this book…, it’s the best…,you can learn a lot from it…”, but you’re unsure if you want to invest money into a book you don’t even know if you’ll like, let alone have time to read!
But there is a solution: Thanks to the fantastic concept behind getAbstract. getAbstract is an online offer that summarizes business books. Each year, 10,000 books are examined by getAbstract and the best ones are summarized into 5 pages. By now, there are 3,500 titles from 90 business categories available. So you can decide simply and easily, if you like a book before buying it. For all XING Premium Members there is a special offer from getAbstract in PremiumWorld – Look out for it!!!
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thank will chase it up – even if I prefer to read the whole book in order to make my own picture
And whats the next step: GetAbstractedAbstract.com?
I like to read books and write my own abstracts. The more time you spend with a book, the more you can get out of it. At least that’s what I believe.
Probably a perfect complement for this offer would be an offering like “How to get an MBA in 24 hours…”. I’d like to order such of those
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I’m not so sure of the value of these condensed versions either.
What I found very time-efficient was listening to books. I’m a member of audible.com. They also have a German site audible.de. Lots of stuff. Make that commuting time productive by listening to a good book. Whatever’s your fancy: Novel, business, how-to-guide- they have a large range of choice.
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sorry,
but i posted a question the premium group forum and did not yet get a reply i.e. i tried to profit from the fon offer but the promotion code seems not working.
my apologies again.
thank you
@sparky, we´ll catch up with you regarding the FON issue. I´ll have a chat with the responsible department.
Hi!!
Very like it!
I like it a lot! Good work, keep it up. Tomorrow I shall return again.