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Reading Audiobooks

By Megan Huddleston @MNHuddleston

December 31, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Reading Audiobooks

There is currently much debate over whether listening to an audiobook counts as “reading” a book. However, oral storytelling has been around longer than books. In fact, the first books were written in order to be read aloud.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: audiobooks, Reading, stories

Publishers’ Influence on Pop Culture

By Alexandria Davis

February 5, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Publishers’ Influence on Pop Culture

These same celebrities we watch on TV, whose lives seem to be occupied with drama, business ventures, bad grammar, fashion shows, shopping trips, and traveling across the country that you have no choice but to wonder when, if ever, do they find the time to write a 200-300 page novel?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: author, book, books, celebrity, co-writer, ghost writers, influence, ny times, pop culture, publisher, publishing, read, Reading, reality tv, stories, writers

The Power of Stories: Narrative Psychology in Publishing

By Megan Doyle

April 29, 2015 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Power of Stories: Narrative Psychology in Publishing

Beyond the ability to hold an enthusiastic reader’s rapt attention or gain a bestseller’s widespread audience, stories have a power that most people take for granted. They contribute to the way we perceive and process our own experiences. Psychologists who study this power call it narrative psychology. Narrative psychology is described as a burgeoning field […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: A Series of Small Maneuvers, books, brain, Eliot Treichel, memory, narrative psychology, Ooligan, psychology, Reading, stories

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