BOOKS VERSUS BOOK SUMMARIES
Are book summaries meant to replace books? Let's get straight to the point: no. Why? Because book summaries are just what they are - summaries.
What book summaries cannot do
Book summaries can enumerate (and briefly explain) ideas, concepts, steps, etc discussed in the book. What it cannot do:
- explain in detail how the concepts and ideas presented in the book can be implemented
- cannot discuss case studies included in the book
- narrate the history how the ideas and concepts introduced came into being.
If you need these things, then you really need to buy the book.
What do book summaries do and represent:
- book summaries present the general ideas of the book. These ideas as mostly already public knowledge presented to the media via articles, book reviews,
author interviews, etc. on print, radio, television and internet
- it serves as memory aid for those who already read the book
- it serves as an "appetizer"
for a reader to decide whether to buy the book or not for his/her business needs.
- it is for people who do not have time to read the book anyway
