#instead a being annoyed about their being a booktok table at you local store (which is actually a good thing cause often times those books

[samglyph]

I think some of you are getting annoyed at booktok for the wrong reasons

#text #I don’t have a tiktok. however #say it with me: people sharing their cringe tastes is literally fine and good and a lot of ‘booktok’ books are genuinely good #they just get overwhelmed by the discussion about the cringe ones #WHAT IS BAD about booktok is that in this new world authors are being forced to advertise their own work and be their own marketing teams #something that they didn’t use to have to do and also ARENT PREPARED TO DO #this creates 1. a weird relationship between artist and consumer #and 2. way more labour for the author that they don’t have the time and energy to commit to #instead a being annoyed about their being a booktok table at you local store (which is actually a good thing cause often times those books #are from new up and coming authors and they would only be on the table if they were selling) #try talking about books that you like. support authors by looking at their other work outside of what is advertised #put pressure on publishing houses to support their writers #anyway