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 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 | 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 | Jun 9, 2014 | The Book Biz
A lot of my friends are in the book biz so we’ve been talking for a few weeks now about what’s going on between Amazon and Hachette (one of the Big Five publishers—think Little, Brown and Company; Hyperion Books; Grand Central Publishing, which is the former Warner...
by Jamie Chavez | Apr 3, 2014 | Miscellany
The battery in my (second generation!) Kindle is growing old; it doesn’t last as long as it used to. I can foresee a time when I will have to decide … No, no. No decision. I’ll get a new Kindle, no doubt about it. I love my Kindle. This wasn’t always the case. That...
