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Exploring Video Games and Interactive Media in Publishing

By Faith Muñoz @fmunoz247

November 7, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Exploring Video Games and Interactive Media in Publishing

A whole generation of children is learning to read from a screen rather than a book. What could this mean for the future of the publishing industry? For one, it means we can no longer ignore the influence of ereaders, audiobooks, interactive reading apps, and video games on future and current readers.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: app, audiobooks, digital, eBooks, ereader, interactive media, publishing, Sleeping in My Jeans, video games

The Value of an Ebook

By Brittney Finato @finatography

October 31, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Value of an Ebook

While we could go around for hours about the costs of an ebook version of a book versus others, there’s another part of the general consumption of ebooks that should be discussed. Perceived value is just as important as actual cost.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: blog, blogging, books, cost, digital, eBooks, Huffington Post, Ooligan, opinion, pdx, PNW, price, publisher, publishing

Enactivism as a Goal in Digital Learning

By Kento Ikeda

October 15, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Enactivism as a Goal in Digital Learning

Ask someone to close their eyes and place a ring in their hand, and they’ll move the object in their hand to get a sense of its shape. Forbid them from moving their hand, and they’ll have a very difficult time figuring out the shape from touch alone.
Image: Original photograph of a pair of Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and a copy of 50 Hikes (I can do a version with Classroom Publishing or whatever if that makes more sense).

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: Alva Noe, digital, eBooks, Enactivism, labo, learning, Nintendo, perception, philosophy

Don’t Give Up on Enhanced Ebooks Yet

By Kaitlin Barnes

September 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Don’t Give Up on Enhanced Ebooks Yet

And yet, Arnaud Nourry, CEO of Hachette Livre, put the debate about the merits of ebooks in the spotlight again. He argued that the number of sales was only going to continue to decline, because “The ebook is a stupid product. It is exactly the same as print, except it’s electronic. There is no creativity, no enhancement, no real digital experience.” According to Nourry, attempts to add other forms of content to ebooks have failed. “We, as publishers, have not done a great job going digital. We’ve tried. We’ve tried enhanced or enriched ebooks—didn’t work. We’ve tried apps, websites with our content—we have one or two successes among a hundred failures.” Though he concludes there is hope for creating new digital forms of reading, he argues that those technologies will come from industries outside of publishing and by “[going] beyond the ebook on digital.”

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: digital, eBooks, Ooligan

Instant Entertainment: Ebooks at the Library

By Bryn Kristi @bryncessk

September 12, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Instant Entertainment: Ebooks at the Library

So now you really can download the app, get a library card and borrow dozens of ebooks all without ever leaving your home.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: download ebooks, ebook apps, eBooks, ereader, free books, free ebooks, instant books, kids, Kindle, libraries, library, Multnomah County Library, overdrive, students

Romance Readers’ Embrace of Ebooks

By Elise Hitchings

August 8, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Romance Readers’ Embrace of Ebooks

Out of Amazon’s ebook paid sales, 45 percent were romance. And out of all romance sales, an estimated 89 percent are digital copies. So why do romance readers buy so many ebooks?

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: amazon, digital, eBooks, genre, romance

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