BookRags

BookRags
Web address BookRags.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site
 Internet Study guide and Lesson plan
Registration Optional
Available in English
Owner Ambassadors Group
Alexa rank
 positive decrease 49,203 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Active

BookRags is an educational website that provides summaries, study guides, and lesson plans on literary works. Based in Seattle, Washington, United States,[2] the website is a subsidiary of Ambassadors Group.[3]

BookRags was founded in 1999 by James Yagmin and David Lieberman, who had recently graduated from college.[4][5] On May 15, 2008, BookRags was bought by Ambassadors Group for $18 million.[5][6][7] The merger was a friendly takeover.[8]

BookRags contains concise book summaries and thorough analysis of more than 6,000 literary works, which is, according to one source, the largest collection online.[9] It also has a list of characters and their descriptions, as well as an important quotes section.[10] The website has over 10,000 e-Books in its collection[11] and 8,400 biographies in its database. It facilitates students purchasing duplicates of fellow students' papers.[12]

The information on BookRags is written by professional writers and teachers. Though study guides for 157[13] of the most commonly taught titles, like Hamlet[14] and To Kill a Mockingbird,[15] are free to access, most require either an ongoing subscription or a single one-time purchase.[16]

In a 2010 interview with The New York Times, Carl Fisher, the department chair of the comparative world literature and classics at California State University, Long Beach, criticized BookRags for being "simplistic" and "forc[ing] people to pay up front".[17]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bookrags.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ "BookRags and eNotes Form BookRags Media - Achieves Largest Reach in Student Educational Resources Space" (Press release). BookRags. 2010-11-09. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
  3. ↑ "Travel company growing: Ambassadors Group buying online bookseller". The Spokesman-Review (Cowles Publishing Company). 2008-05-22. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  4. ↑ "About BookRags". BookRags. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "BookRags, Inc.". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  6. ↑ "Ambassadors Group buys BookRags for $18 million". International Business Times (Associated Press). 2008-05-21. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  7. ↑ "Ambassadors Group buys BookRags". Puget Sound Business Journal (American City Business Journals). 2008-05-22. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  8. ↑ "BookRags Inc & Ambassadors Group Inc". CNNMoney.com (Time Warner). 2008-12-12. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  9. ↑ "Content Areas". Indiana Department of Education. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  10. ↑ Philippot, Raymond; Graves, Michael F. (2008). Fostering Comprehension in English Classes: Beyond the Basics. Minneapolis: Guilford Press. p. 18. ISBN 1-59385-883-3.
  11. ↑ Cavanaugh, Terence W. (2006). The Digital Reader: Using E-books in K-12 Education. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: ISTE. p. 120. ISBN 1-56484-221-5.
  12. ↑ Hansell, Saul (2008-10-20). "Glam Breaks Into Top 10 in Traffic, but How?". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-21.
  13. ↑ "BookRags Free Book Notes".
  14. ↑ "BookRags Free Hamlet Study Guide".
  15. ↑ "BookRags Free To Kill a Mockingbird Study Guide".
  16. ↑ "BookRags.com – Research Anything, Book Summaries, Study". KillerStartUps.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-22.
  17. ↑ Furchgott, Roy (2010-09-15). "A Professor’s Review of Online Cheat Sheets". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2015-01-21.

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