Book Shopping on Amazon? Don’t Be Duped Into Buying a Summary
E-commerce giant pulls shortened versions of popular reads like Marie Kondo’s ‘Tidying Up’ and Timothy Ferriss’s ‘The 4-Hour Body’ after Journal inquiry
Summaries of popular books have long been a staple in the publishing business. Now they are often hard to tell apart from the real thing.
Authors and publishers say they are concerned about a recent surge in summaries available on Amazon, some of which have covers that copy or mimic the original’s art and use the author’s name. Some consumers are mistakenly buying those summaries instead of the original works, they say, hurting their sales.
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