Saudi Arabia clocks 442 million #Booktok views in six months. Saudi book fairs embrace the phenomenon
“a dedicated landing page with content by #BookTok creators from Al-Sharqiya Book...
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Category: Social Media
Global publishers – social media is not your enemy
What is up with the youth of today? Don’t they understand that reading is something you have...
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FYI – Frankfurt Buchmesse Professional Programme 2022: Masterclasses on TikTok, Audiobooks and Distribution
From the Buchmesse newsletter Using AI to create audiobooks, communicating with the fan community...
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TikTok, forecast to reach 1.8 billion monthly active users by end 2022, is the search engine of choice for some
Book publishers are by now acutely aware that TikTok’s BookTok has become a major channel...
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Facebook abandons podcasts, but no the podcasting sky is not falling
One might think, in a world of real doom and gloom, death and destruction, that there was no need...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter Publish Africa #9 is now available
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for Africa’s authors and...
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WhatsApp hits 2 billion users. Yet many publishers lament social media’s existence instead of embracing its possibilities
It’s an incredible number. Two billion. Two billion people around the world, that is, that...
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While some publishers see social media as the enemy, others understand Instagram = instabooks = instaprofits
We hear it so often it’s easy to start believing it. Nobody reads because they are all on social...
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Why social media will drive the nascent ebook markets
“When it comes to their social media preferences, U.S. teens are about as loyal as Brutus...
Read MoreA million poetry books sold in 2016
It’s a funny old world. Publishing is supposedly on its knees, decimated by digital, attention spans are supposedly shortening by the day and no-one reads any more, and video streaming and other distractions are wiping out...
Read MoreInstagram Poets that outsell Grisham and Atwood
It was never meant to be like this. In those dark and gloomy days of 2011-13 it seemed to many observers that mainstream publishing had no future and digital would not just disrupt, but destroy publishing as we knew it. Not only...
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