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 […]
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Further Developments in Subscription Reading
By Zach Eggemeyer
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 […]
The Internet of Amazon
By Kurt Spickerman
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 […]
Recent Developments in Subscription Reading Services
By Zach Eggemeyer
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 […]
Publishing Roundup: Harlequin Romance, Oyster, and the Rise of the Independents
By Melissa Gifford
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 […]