by Jamie Chavez | Jan 12, 2015 | The Arts & Media, Your Editor Says …
Is this “the free market at work”? Mike Hyatt—whom I admire—has always been an early adopter of technology and a keen observer of the publishing marketplace. I look to him regularly for ideas and inspiration. However, in one of his blog posts he touted crowd-sourcing...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 16, 2014 | The Arts & Media, The Book Biz
We’ve been talking about e-books, most recently this week in “Book Marketing in the Digital Age” (but also here and here, for starters) … but to my mind they’re still just books. Words. Reading. This article from the New York Times points out that some folks had...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 26, 2014 | The Arts & Media, The Writing Craft
Time magazine recently ran an article called “Sting’s Shipyard Serenade”* that I thought had an interesting line. Here’s the set-up: As the superstar front man of the Police, Sting wrote nearly every song on the band’s five hit albums from 1978 to 1983. For the next...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 10, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Arts & Media
It’s still summer—hot enough for y’all?—and I’m still working on some fantastic new blog posts. In the meantime, I want to revisit my archives and bring some new information to your attention. Let’s get started, shall we? ✱ Digital reading This is a topic that’s going...
by Jamie Chavez | Jun 7, 2014 | Miscellany, The Arts & Media
Because sometimes you just need to have a little visual stimulation, here’s a collection of photographs of street art and murals from around the world … all on the theme of books and reading. As the person who collected them notes, these murals all show traditional...
by Jamie Chavez | May 31, 2014 | The Arts & Media
There’s been a lot of talk about the state of journalism these days, mostly by serious journalists (Mort Rosenblum’s been talking about it for years). Like bookstores, newspapers and news magazines are closing down at an alarming rate, which has real journalists in a...