Summarized Books

Summarized Books


You will be a lifesaver for those that are required to read books for various reasons. Usually they need help due to time constraint issues. While they may have a great interest in the material to be read, they are crunched for time and so look for an alternative way to obtain the information. This is true for people of every walk of life, from housewives belonging to book clubs, college students who need to write a report based on a book's content, or executives who need to do market or industry research in a hurry.

If you are an avid reader and a decent writer, this could be the business idea that you are looking for, and will be a service that you can enjoy providing.

If you summarize books, you need to be careful to make sure that you don't plagiarize others books though. Plagiarizing involves copying other person's ideas or written work and claiming it as original. This is illegal and can cause you a lot of trouble, so be well educated on what you legally can do and what you cannot. Follow the guidelines very carefully. The last thing that you want to do is fight a lawsuit.

The better that you are at summarizing the books, the more popular you will find yourself to be with your customers. If you are a college student, or have been one before, it can help too. Students are usually the ones that need to read books in a short amount of time. Then they usually have to write some sort of statement or write papers about different aspects of the importance of the books they read. Therefore, it is important that you give enough information so that they can write educated evaluations of the books with your summarized versions.

This is an excellent business to offer on the internet, charging for each of the summaries. Remember that summaries are shortened versions of the books, giving only the main points or important aspects of each. You will need to decide what to charge for each of your summaries based on what other sites are asking for their services, and also how much time is involved in accomplishing each summary on your part. Remember, that you will more than likely be able to sell each summary many times over again, so try to keep your cost low enough for students to be able to afford, but with-in an amount you can reasonably afford to offer them for.

You should pick a niche, because the competition in this area is heavy. Check to see where there is a real need in a field and grab it while you can. Offer top-notch summaries also and this will help you stand out among the many, if there are many competing with you. You may even want to approach each summary from different angles also. An example would be how the book would appeal to an; English, Science, Medical or any other professor and student. This might require you to write several different versions of summaries for each book. This will help you to be more popular than the others too.

It will take time to establish yourself in the field, but be patient and you will build a reliable reputation and customer base.



Resources:

http://www.summary.com/cgi-bin/Soundview.storefront

http://www.bizsum.com/

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/write/handouts/summary.html

http://www.intuitive-connections.net/guidelines.htm

http://www.mantex.co.uk/samples/summary.htm