It doesn’t matter if you avoid social media or are chronically online enough to know what “faerie smut” is – if you’re a reader, you’ve probably heard of BookTok. Reader communities ...

He also continues to make music under the stage name Empty Streets. What is BookTok? BookTok is a TikTok subcommunity where users share recommendations, reviews, reactions, and open discussions ...

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It has also given authors another requirement for success: virality. SEE ALSO: BookTok encourages reading as an aesthetic and no one is safe from its gaze In an era where self-promotion and ...

Beth Marhanka, a librarian at Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library who helps facilitate Lattes and Lit, said she sees BookTok impacting the literary landscape for the better. “It’s wonderful to ...

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It’s almost like therapy.” “I have to credit BookTok a lot, because it provided that forum for people to start sharing what they were interested in,” Weaver tells Rolling Stone.

This week, BookTok creators reflected on how social media, can build a readership for a book, the pros and cons of book-related merch and the rise of events aimed at influencers. There are “a ...