Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’ve cultivated an audience of readers for outlets like Variety, Vulture and Time, but in early 2021 I started my own BookTok (TikTok parlance for ...

sleek books under the sign “BookTok.” Coming onto the literary scene only recently, BookTok is a subsection of the larger platform TikTok; this subsection has become a haven for readers and ...

At the beginning of the month, there was controversy on BookTok over Fable’s use of AI. Fable, a social media app for people to discuss books, used an AI programme to produce a reading year in ...

The biggest problem with BookTok isn’t the books people are reading, but the way they consume them. The endless cycle of buying books to appeal to an aesthetic shifts the focus of being a “book lover” ...

So in early 2022, Till listed the book online, printed a few keepsake ... The platform’s hive of readers, known as BookTok, has become a dominant commercial force in publishing.

When Brynne Weaver first released her novel Butcher & Blackbird, she was on a fact finding mission in the self-publishing world. The author had started with fantasy, then moved into paranormal ...

This week BookTok creators highlighted the books currently popular on the platform alongside the titles experiencing a resurgence. Other popular backlist titles include two epic fantasy series ...

The China-based app, itself threatened with a demise in the U.S. before President Donald Trump intervened, has a rabid following of book lovers via its BookTok channel, which emerged in 2020 ...

Schultz said that BookTok has been extremely “impactful” for her job and also helpful for new authors trying to sell their books. However, the curated space can be both a blessing and a curse ...

Episode 3 of Cue the Commentary offers insight into the relationship between books and media. Stephanie talks with Caitlin ...