Next Big Idea – Books in 15min

Next Big Idea Club

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About this app

Next Big Idea: The World’s Leading Book Summaries & Reading Club. Loved by Thousands of Life-long Learners Across the Globe.

Learn from the Authors Themselves
Next Big Idea is the only app where you can read summaries written and spoken by the authors. You won’t find these exclusive gold nuggets anywhere else.

Featured Authors
- Adam Grant
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Daniel Pink
- Susan Cain
- James Clear
- Nir Eyal
- And so many more

Highlights
● Book Bites — Listen to or read 15 minute book overviews, as created and recorded by the authors themselves. 100+ titles available!

● E-courses — 45 minute master classes, in audio, video and text formats starring the authors of the Next Big Idea’s best books of the year

● Conversations — Watch recorded live Q&As, podcast recordings, and author chats

● Next Big Idea Podcast — 45 minute ad-free episodes from our celebrated podcast

● Idea of the day — 2 minute daily insights from leading thinkers

● Exclusive Invitations – Receive invites to live author Q&As and book launches

● Original audio books

● AI Recommendation Assistant

Testimonials
“Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys getting deeper insight into books.” – Buddy G.

"I love the app and listen to the Book Bites most mornings on my walk! Great job." – Kim S.

“There are so many book summary apps out there and I love some of them, like Blinkist and Uptime. “There are so many book summary apps out there and I love some of them, like Blinkist and Uptime. But NBI is different. NBI's summaries are written and narrated by the authors so you get the main points they want you to get.” – Hlyan H.

Deep Learning
Don’t just stop at 2 or 15 minutes a day. We have 45 minute e-courses of the best nonfiction books of the year, as selected by our legendary curators. Taught by the leading thinkers themselves, discover exclusive e-courses feature key takeaways, discussion questions, and interactive exercises and quizzes.

Ad-Free
The Next Big Idea app also gives you access to ad-free episodes of our podcast! Each episode is a deep dive into one big idea through immersive storytelling, narration and curator interviews with the most interesting authors at work today.

A Smarter Version of You Awaits
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” What are you waiting for? Go deeper and start learning from the world’s leading experts today.

Ratings and reviews

The club membership is fantastic! Author-read book bites are better than 3rd party book summaries elsewhere, and the curated collection is constantly expanding. I love the podcast that accompanies the app, and the app is continuously evolving and getting better/easier to use. The app developers have been EXTREMELY responsive to constructive criticism I've sent them, even making near-immediate changes to push notifications. Can't say I've had that experience with any other app... ever.

Nowhere in the description - the rather lengthy description - does it say anything about a subscription app with a 7-day free trial. (No, the "in-app purchases" line does NOT suffice.) This is info I want BEFORE I download the app. I didn't find this out until I looked at why my email was required. Uninstalling, just for the sheer dissemblement.

(EDIT: Reduced the rating because your app is glitchy. It keeps crashing. It forgets my last point of listening a particular book bite. If i pause to come back to it later and the app is running in background, it still just reloads the app afresh. That breaks my flow.) Loving the experience of listening to book shorts. I have never tried podcasts etc before. So it's a wonderful experience to me... And so meaningful!

What's new

Fast-track your learning with the Next Big Idea app, the ONLY place to get 15 minute audio summaries — from the best new nonfiction books — directly from the authors themselves.
Latest app improvements include:
• Routine bug fixes and speed improvements.