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The Transition From Online to Print in Blogs and Webcomics

By Emily Goldman

April 24, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Transition From Online to Print in Blogs and Webcomics

From a publishing perspective, the internet is a largely untapped resource. Several publishers have attempted to capitalize on the internet’s creativity by acquiring the rights to publish various online phenomena. Next time you’re in a bookstore, take a look near the front register and count how many books you see that are collections of recent […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: allie brosh, gingerhaze, harpercollins, HarperTeen, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hyperbole and a Half, Matthew Inman, Nimona, Noelle Stevenson, Randall Munroe, Simon & Schuster Andrews McMeel Publishing, The Oatmeal, Touchstone, What If?, xkcd

Further Developments in Subscription Reading

By Zach Eggemeyer

April 22, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Further Developments in Subscription Reading

This post is a continuation of an earlier discussion concerning recent developments in subscription reading services. Big publishing continues experimenting with the subscription reading services Oyster and Scribd­: 15,000 Harlequin romance titles became available through Scribd just last week. Sustaining this success is contingent on a host of delicately balanced circumstances, detailed in my last […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, Audible, Cory Doctorow, eBooks, harlequin, harpercollins, Harry Potter, Kindle Unlimited, Life of Pi, Scribd, Simon and Schuster, Stephen King, subscription reading, Tags: Oyster

The Internet of Amazon

By Kurt Spickerman

April 13, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Internet of Amazon

Does the thought of running out of Tide wake you in cold sweats? Is your greatest fear an afternoon spent hustling to the store for more Quaker Oats? In April of 2014, Amazon introduced something called the Dash, a carrot-sized contraption that allows consumers to zap the barcodes off their empty cereal boxes, or, when […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: amazon, consumerism, dash, dash button, echo, harpercollins, home services, Internet of Things, IoT, monopoly, publishing

Recent Developments in Subscription Reading Services

By Zach Eggemeyer

August 27, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Recent Developments in Subscription Reading Services

We here at Ooligan Press have been watching recent developments in subscription reading services closely. In May, the two largest providers of subscription reading services for trade books—Oyster and Scribd—announced that 10,000 e-books from Simon & Schuster’s backlist would become available to subscribers. Until then, HarperCollins was the only publisher of the big five to […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: e-books, harpercollins, ooligan press, oyster, Recurring revenue models, Scribd, Simon & Schuster, Subscription reading services

Publishing Roundup: Harlequin Romance, Oyster, and the Rise of the Independents

By Melissa Gifford

May 14, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Publishing Roundup: Harlequin Romance, Oyster, and the Rise of the Independents

It’s time for another publishing news roundup, straight from the Ooligan source! Sometimes, it’s easy to get caught up in the bubble of our little publishing house, but it’s important to remember that there’s a whole lot happening out in the publishing world right now, given that the whole industry seems to be teetering on […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: future of publishing, harlequin, harpercollins, Independent Bookstores, independent publishers, industry, oyster, publishing

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