is it not what Cliffnotes did?
valuable niche though, somethings need a good TL;DR, though anything involving reading for the sake of the prose itself would be wasted
This is audio form. And most of their content is non-fiction for now.
It’s still crazy to me that people think there is a huge demand for this.
It’s basically audio only Ted talks... but you pay for them? Why not just buy the self help and never read it like most people do?
Some people have long commutes and can listen to hours long podcasts/audio books. There's a market created by urban and suburban sprawl and rush hour traffic that seems to extend past what rush hour should be.
This would seem to be a market already realy well served by audio books and podcasts.
I think you (or I) might be misunderstanding what this is. From what I gathered they are taking like 200 page self help/Business books, and summarizing into 15 minutes and selling that.
It’s not unabridged audiobooks, but more like abridged like a motherfucker audio books.
Edit: I listen to about 40 hours of audio books a month, and have no idea why I would want 15 minute versions of them. They are either worth listening to or aren’t.
