There’s been a bit of a vibe shift among BookTok users as TikTok's Jan. 19 sell-or-ban deadline approaches. That the beloved online reader community could soon be a thing of the past spurred a ...

It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok. On one side of the app, readers begged users to refrain from connecting politics and novels. On the other, readers argued ...

But the immense impact TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has had on the publishing industry over the past five years cannot be denied, for it’s #BookTok that is largely responsible for ...