by Jamie Chavez | Apr 17, 2018 | The Book Biz
I am continually amused (?) by the ads my Kindle displays when I open it for use. With two exceptions (Norelco men’s electric shaver shows up occasionally, and the Phillips Wake-up Light), they are always books (which would make sense), and I can tell at a glance they...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 28, 2014 | Authors & Other Writers, The Book Biz
It is to a lot of women writers, yes. Take that Meg Wolitzer article I directed you to in the previous post; she makes the suggestion that if Jeffrey Eugenides’s book The Marriage Plot (with its title, wedding ring on the cover, female protagonist, and...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 11, 2014 | The Book Biz
The other day my friend Christy O’Flaherty posted a link to a roundtable discussion about print books versus e-books and started one of her own. As you know, I’ve given up the debate: I like my e-reader for certain very specific activities—traveling, waiting in lines,...
by Jamie Chavez | Aug 9, 2014 | The Book Biz
The standoff between Hachette and Amazon drags on while the rest of us turn to other things. (As Anne Lamott points out, “The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember.” And none of those things include Hachette/Amazon.) However, my...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 24, 2014 | The Book Biz
It’s dragging out, folks, this impasse. And it seems to have dragged otherwise good people into a shouting match. (I thought only politics did that. But then, everything is politics, no?*) Even the delightful Porter Anderson—a journalist who follows the publishing...
