Bookcademy

Book summaries as fun, useful & practical courses

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Book summaries as fun, useful & practical courses

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Books are no longer theoretical knowledge. We turn non-fiction books into a fun, useful and practical way to learn. Each book is a course!

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Hello Hunters! It’s not about how many books you read per year, it’s about how many of them you put into practice! This is only for serious readers that not just read a book instead study the book! Each non-fiction book is a masterpiece where you can learn from the best. Why just read and throw the trash when you can read and apply? Publishers are concerned about the amount of books sales, you need to be worried about how many of them you remember and apply. Speed reading, audiobooks, and summaries are an error of concept. You can’t capture the essence of the book with speed reading, audiobooks or summaries. You need to read the complete book, maybe fewer books per year, but above that put them into practice and get ROI from them! I always had a problem with non-fiction books. It’s not easy to put them into practice. I’m always taking notes, trying to challenge myself with quizzes, making summaries, highlighting it and trying to remember everything. I know, I'm a geek, but it's the best way to learn a lot without going to college. I launched Bookcademy to solve my problem, and probably you are just like me. I turn books into a course, where you can challenge your knowledge with quizzes, notes, activities, use cases, projects, summaries and so on. Each course is a fun, useful and practical way to learn.

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7yr ago

@daniel_moralesp I like the concept and I will try the beta for sure. "Speed reading, audiobooks, and summaries are an error of concept. It's for lazy people! You can’t capture the essence of the book with speed reading, audiobooks or summaries. " I strongly disagree with your take. Speed reading is useful and effective. Not everybody is a visual learner, so audiobooks are an amazing tool. Summaries can be helpful to grasp the main concepts, especially if you consider the fact that books need to reach a certain amount of pages to sell and so end up repeating the same concept over and over. Your product seems very cool, but your marketing strategy (tearing down competitors and solutions that other people use) is not. I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up reducing your success. People don't want to be called lazy by a random stranger. It's crazy, I know...

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7yr ago

@daniel_moralesp @luqa Hi Luca, ok thanks for your feedback, I'll try to fix that!

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7yr ago

ByPeople

@daniel_moralesp Hello Daniel, congrats on your launching !! Btw, soy de startup colombia ;)

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7yr ago

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@juanpablosarmi Hola Juan! Gracias por tu apoyo!

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7yr ago

It looks good @daniel_moralesp! I like the idea of not just reading for the sake of reading, but also applying what you read and learned.

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7yr ago

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@alexdevero Hi Alex, yes, that the whole idea! Put books into practice! I'm glad that you enjoy the concept!

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7yr ago

@dani_moralito congratulations. tried out the beta...seems like a great review and way to solidify the lessons of the books to put the lessons into practice.

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7yr ago

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@dani_moralito @gfragin Exactly, that's the whole idea. We don't expect to replace the book, we hope to be the best complement for them. Happy learning!

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7yr ago

@daniel_moralesp Congrats, It is an amazing concept, recently i bought the mom test book, Bookcademy will be the right tool to get to solidify the knowledge of the book.

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7yr ago

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@satreuh82 Hi, thanks for your comment! Yeah, that's the whole idea behind. I hope that you enjoy our course!

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7yr ago

This could be huge. Fantastic idea - I could see it being the complimentary add-on to any book, might also be hard to scale, here's to your success with it! Thought - Authors might be willing to help create the course in some way for free because in return they get a boost to book sales. Especially newest books where their book sales count the most. Find books releasing soon and work with the publishers. You'll forever get to say "the flood of traffic on launch took down our servers briefly" :)

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7yr ago

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@veggieplate jajaja yeaahh! of course! I'll be always saying that ! jajaj... Great feedback! Thanks for that!

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7yr ago

As someone who loves books and learning but has always struggled to implement what I read...this is an amazing idea! Signed up! Looking forward to seeing more books in the platform!

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7yr ago

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@no_pikers Hi Lee, yes, that's the whole idea... try to implement it, not just read it. Actually this is my biggest problem with books, and because of that I decide to solve it with this product. Very soon we are launching more books, this is our coming soon list: https://www.bookcademy.com/votes. Regards!

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7yr ago

I liked it, but I'd like to see what books I should read toi start the challenges... (if there is a list, was not easy to find it)

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7yr ago

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@lucasvmiguel In the catalog section you can find the 2 courses available now: "The Mom Test" and "Hacking Growth". Both are a great books! and we make an entire course based on that! Rgerads!

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