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Ask HN: Question about Sparknotes and book royalties

1 points by aorshan 15y ago

I have a question about the website sparknotes.com. For anyone that isn't familiar it is a website that summarizes and analyzes popular books. It is usually used by high school and college students to avoid reading assignments. Does a website like that have to pay royalties to the publishing companies of those books? If so, how much money are we talking about?

jasondrowley 15y ago
While this is not the case with all the books they summarize, most of them are out of copyright. As for the new(er) books on the site, I don't know. Out of interest, what prompts the question?
- aorshan 15y ago
  I have 4 chapters of physics to read tonight.