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When We Dream About the Future: Digital Ambiguity in 2020

By Chris Leal

August 31, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

When We Dream About the Future: Digital Ambiguity in 2020

We must rethink our concepts of what is digital, what is physical, and what the grayness in between looks like.

Filed Under: Digital, Manager Monday Tagged With: content, digital, digital skills, eBooks, future, innovation, library, publishing

Typography in 2020: What’s in a Trend?

By Chris Leal

July 22, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Typography in 2020: What’s in a Trend?

If typography is out in the wild, it will demand your attention whether it’s effective or not. Even unsuccessful attempts at public graphic design grab the observant onlooker’s gaze.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: bold, creativity, Design, graphic design, innovation, legibility, sans-serif, serif, trends, typography

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

By Tiffany Watson

April 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

Creating an original voice, going against the grain of convention, has little to do with the spark we are often told about. Rather, it is a conscious effort to know the rules and when to innovate.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Convention, Editing, innovation, Language, literature, Mark Turner, philosophy, Roland Posner, Spark, Stephen King, writing

DRM: To Prevent Piracy or Secure Loyalty?

By Meagan Nolan

May 2, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

DRM: To Prevent Piracy or Secure Loyalty?

What started as a clause in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 to protect the infringement of copyrighted works, such as movies, books and music, has blossomed into a full-fledged debate on who owns, who can modify, and who can repair the products consumers purchase. These products can range from cell phones and cars to children’s toys and ebooks, making it almost a certainty that everyone has at least one DRM-protected product in their home. The companies who place the DRM on these products can control who uses, modifies, and distributes the copyrighted works and products.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: 2018, amazon, code, company, consumer, copyright, customer, digital, Digital Content, digital rights management, DRM, ebook, ebook reader, innovation, Kindle, law, lawmakers, loyalty, modifications, monopoly, Ooligan, piracy

Loans from Big Brother: There’s Hope for Small Publishers

By Esa Grigsby

December 13, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Loans from Big Brother: There’s Hope for Small Publishers

Will Self asserts that the great literary fiction novel is falling from popular demand and will only continue in society as a source of entertainment for a select few. History preserved in the present, like “easel painting or classical music . . . a subject for historical scholarship rather than public discourse.” In a world where big publishers absorb smaller publishers at an alarming rate, I’ve started thinking perhaps he’s right, but what is an aspiring publisher to do?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: accelerators, altruism, amazon, Apple, big five, Google+, hope, innovation, publishing, publishing business models, publishing culture, publishing is dead, Small Publishers, startup, technology

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