When people think of their high school English classes, a few things usually tend to come to mind: memorizing sonnets, slogging through long novels with arcane language, and — of course — cramming ...

I’ll admit it: I was the student that tipped the teacher off that half of our English class, including me, was using SparkNotes to “read” “Twelfth Night” by Shakespeare, instead of actually reading ...

Senior Anjelica Sauerwein has never finished reading a school assigned book. Yet, she still does well on tests. Her secret? She uses Sparknotes. Perhaps it is not so much a secret as a well known fact ...

If a songwriter can win the Nobel Prize for literature, can CliffsNotes be art? During his official lecture recorded on June 4, laureate Bob Dylan described the influence on him of three literary ...

Sam Yagan, co-founder of SparkNotes, OkCupid, and Corazon Capital.. Photo: Justin Clemons Like a lot of first-time entrepreneurs during the early days of the internet in the 1990s, Sam Yagan started ...

Slate magazine spotted 20 similarities between Dylan's speech and a study website used by students Bob Dylan may have plagiarised his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, an online version of ...

At this time of year, students are buying textbooks and looking for ways to avoid reading them. Nothing is new about that. CliffsNotes guides, with their familiar yellow and black covers, have been in ...