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'BookTok': how social media changed how we read books
Season 1
Episode 73
Published 3 years, 7 months ago
Description
Laura Battle, Deputy Books Editor at the Financial Times, tells us how social media, especially #BookTok, has changed the global publishing industry and gives her own recommendations for summer reading.
And Ella Berthoud, a 'bibliotherapist' who uses the power of books to help people through tough times and who wrote 'The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies' lists her favourite escapist fiction.
The interviews in this episode were previously published on the World Economic Forum Bookclub Podcast.
Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/book-club-summer-books-2022
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