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For fans, sexy, female-centered entertainment is a welcome escape from reality

Reading, once a largely private activity, has become more public and communal with the emergence of book-centred social media spaces. But while the “BookTok” and “Bookstagram” communities are often in the news, Goodreads, founded in 2006 and estimated to have 150 million users, was arguably the first digital network to…

While the Australian book market was down 3% last year, genre fiction – popular on BookTok – was among the rare categories that grew.

Sarah J Maas’s series is a global bestseller, combining fantasy, romance and action

White Nights, the author’s 1848 novella, sounds an unlikely candidate to go viral, but the story of lovelorn loneliness is now a favourite among TikTok and Instagram users

Publishing is one of many fields poised for disruption by tech companies and artificial intelligence (AI). New platforms and approaches, like a book imprint by Microsoft and a self-publishing tech startup that uses AI, promise to make publishing faster and more accessible than ever.

8th Note Press, an imprint launched by ByteDance, will print novels in genres popular on BookTok including YA and contemporary fiction and ‘romantasy’

Okay, true crime heads and Booktok shippers, have I got a game for you. The Life is Strange series has a brand new entry, serving up another murder-mystery plot scored to a banger indie soundtrack. In Life is Strange: Double Exposure, you once again play as Max Caulfield several years…

A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops