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The Age of Mass Distraction

By Monique Vieu

October 16, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Age of Mass Distraction

With an economic market that demands extreme multitasking and a digital culture that rewards immediacy, ease, and efficiency, our environment is changing at an astonishing rate. Pressured by this cultural shift, we have less time to consume information, and our brains are adapting to these demands.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: apps, best sellers, brain, digital media, digital reading, Facebook, instagram, literary awards, Maryanne Wolf, N. Katherine Hayles, Nielsen, reading skills, skimming, smartphones, twitter

Read Me an App

By Riley Pittenger @rileypittenger

September 6, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Read Me an App

According to Reading Picture Books to Children by Megan Dowd Lambert, this is an opportunity for both parties to engage in “extended, cognitively challenging conversation during the reading of a book.” It’s a free-flowing narrative experience that makes space for children to develop ideas about the structure and reasoning behind the narrative and art of books.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: apps, children's books, digital, interactive, picture books

The Trouble With Clean Reading

By Sophie Aschwanden

July 24, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Trouble With Clean Reading

Clean Reader‘s tagline is, “Read books, not profanity.” Created by Jared and Kirsten Maughan after their daughter came home sad about the language in a book she was reading, the app obscures offensive words in ebooks with a small blue dot. In Clean Reader, “offensive” words range anywhere from “swear words” to “clinical terms for […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: apps, authorial intent, censorship, clean reader, eBooks, publishing

Enhanced Ebooks are Taking to the Clouds

By Kurt Spickerman kurtastic1

March 4, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Enhanced Ebooks are Taking to the Clouds

For our upcoming title, Mastersounds: A Portrait of Jazz in the Pacific Northwest, featuring pictures and interviews with luminaries of the Northwest jazz scene, Ooligan Press was curious if we could do an interactive ebook. We imagined audio, videos, and clickable content, with maps and location-based factoids. Because of the high cost of producing interactive […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: apps, cloud publishing, Creatavist, eBooks, Inkling, Kotobee, Mastersounds

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