Transparency Item: The Perspectives section of the Graphic is comprised of articles based on opinion. This is the opinion and perspective of the writer. SparkNotes makes it easy for book lovers and ...

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 ...

Transparency Item: The Perspectives section of the Graphic is comprised of articles based on opinion. This is the opinion and perspective of the writer. It’s a scenario many students have experienced ...

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 ...

Sam Yagan is a lifelong entrepreneur and exec. He is the cofounder of OkCupid, and was head of the dating site conglomerate the Match Group for seven years. His first company was SparkNotes, which he ...

*Shakespeare either rolls over in his grave or decides he loves memes* Credit: mashable composite: JannHuizenga/getty images and sparknotes via Instagram Most millennials know SparkNotes as the ...

Once upon a time, two years ago to be precise, four Harvard graduates of the class of 1999—Sam, Max, Eli and Chris—set up shop in a little office in nearby Davis Square. They had a modest income but ...

Bob Dylan may have plagiarized portions of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, an online version of CliffsNotes, according to a new piece from Andrea Pitzer on Slate. Pitzer uncovered the ...