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Designing Basic Social Media Images for Your Book

By Riley Robert @RileyRober14

March 28, 2022 by OoliganPress

Designing Basic Social Media Images for Your Book

Are you lost when it comes to designing social media images for your upcoming book? This step-by-step guide walks you through the process of creating basic social media images to promote your book, including the preferred image dimensions for several social media platforms.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Book Promotion, canva, creating content, Design, Facebook, instagram, Social Media, social media design, twitter

The Problem with Book Covers

By Ivory Fields @wratchetwriter_

March 25, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Problem with Book Covers

It’s no secret that the media is image-obsessed and has a problem with whitewashing and gender stereotyping. From magazine covers doing Photoshop “touch-ups,” to fandoms having an issue with a character’s casting in a film, to debates about the term “chick flick” or just how overly pink “girl” toy shelves are. For the publishing world, book covers are a problem we have to fix.

Filed Under: Design, Publishing Tagged With: BIPOC, books, Covers, Design, gender marketing, lgbtqia, Marketing, Social Media, YA

Did COVID Bring Certain Death or New Life to Independent Bookstores in the PNW?

By LeeAnn Rooney

March 23, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Did COVID Bring Certain Death or New Life to Independent Bookstores in the PNW?

Things were also changing for Rachelle Markley, the owner of Crooked House Books and Paper. She said that walk-in traffic dropped off, but luckily she had always been selling online, her biggest presence being on Etsy. During March of last year, she fully expected not to make it when people were “hoarding beans and toilet paper;” she did not think that people were going to open their wallets and start buying “weird collectible books,” yet somehow the pandemic has been really good for online book sales.

Filed Under: Marketing Tagged With: April, Covid, creativity, eCommerce, independent bookstore, livestream, lockdown, Marketing, neighbors, normal, Online, PNW, Portland, positive, return, Support, updates, viability

Acquisitions Outreach in the World of COVID

By Kelly Zatlin @somnikitty

March 21, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Acquisitions Outreach in the World of COVID

If we don’t have anything in our slush pile to share with the press, then our team misses out on the chance to review a raw manuscript. So what has the acquisitions process looked like for Ooligan during the pandemic?

Filed Under: Acquisitions Tagged With: Acquisitions, coronavirus, Covid, outreach, slush pile

US Audiobooks, Audible, and Exclusive Rights

By Kali Carryl

March 18, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

US Audiobooks, Audible, and Exclusive Rights

If audiobooks are so popular, why are they not offered in a similar capacity to the digital music industry by the largest US retailer and producer of audiobooks? While there are costs involved in the production of audiobooks that are time-consuming, the audiobook market is clearly approaching the same issue that the digital music industry faced during the time of illegal downloading services like Napster and Limewire. The hesitancy towards moving to a more open model of consumption is creating piracy issues that are infinitely more destructive to the industry than an overhaul of the current model.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: audiobooks, improvement, NFTs, Publishing industry, streaming services

What Does Lee and Low’s “Diversity Baseline Survey” Reveal About Equity in Publishing?

By Jenna Amundson

March 16, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What Does Lee and Low’s “Diversity Baseline Survey” Reveal About Equity in Publishing?

Many people are familiar with the term diversity, and many companies have created Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committees or positions to help move toward a more inclusive and equitable workspace. But what about publishing? How does equity play a role in publishing, and has there been any progress towards achieving more equity within the publishing industry?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: equity, lee and low, literary equity, publishing

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