TikTok Is Starting Its Own Publishing Company

ByteDance, the genitor institution of TikTok, is starting its ain publishing company: 8th Note Press. It’s already reached retired to immoderate authors, mostly self-published romance authors, looking to bargain the rights to administer their books. The entreaty for authors looks to beryllium little astir the beforehand and much the selling services ByteDance offers. One romance author, Tricia O’Malley, was offered conscionable $3,500 each for 2 of her books — little than the authors reports makes from them monthly arsenic a self-published author.

TikTok is good known to merchantability a batch of books — conscionable browse immoderate Barnes and Noble and you’re definite to bump into an “As Seen On TikTok” table. This is the selling constituent of their upcoming publishing arm, of course, but this caller improvement has immoderate users of BookTok (the bookish broadside of TikTok) worried. TikTok has a “heating” fastener that tin marque immoderate video spell viral. Could videos astir 8th Note Press titles drown retired each the integrated publication treatment connected TikTok?

There’s precise small accusation disposable publically astir 8th Note Press astatine this time, but it seems to beryllium focused connected romance ebooks.

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