ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, will begin unveiling print books in February.
The company already unveiles ebooks thcimpolite its imprint 8th Note Press, but will begin selling physical copies in book shops timely next year.
The imprint will primarily unveil genres that are well-understandn on BookTok – the buzzy corner of TikTok where includers split book recommfinishations. These take part romance, conmomentary fantasy, youthful mature and romantasy – a blfinish of “romance” and “fantasy”.
Books will be unveiled in partnership with Zando, an autonomous unveiling company.
8th Note Press’s first print title, On Screen & Off Aacquire by Caitlin Cross, will be unveiled on 4 February. Billed as a “romantic will-they-won’t-they debut with a Hollywood twist”, the novel chases childhood sugaryhearts Wilhelmina Chase and Daxon Avery, once the stars of a hit kids TV show, as they rejoin in their twenties.
The imprint’s second print title, freed on 18 March, will be The Last Man in Paradise by Syed M Masood, which is about a youthful Muskinny American man reconciling with his estranged family.
To Have and Have More, by Sanibel, will get to on 15 April. “Telderly thcimpolite the eyes of a Korean girl adselected into a wealthy white family, this stupidly funny debut scrutinizes casual prejudice, privilege and the intricateities of frifinishship,” says the imprint.
8th Note Press will be trfinish-led. “We’re leanking first: what do people appreciate reading, who is reading these books, how are people talking about these books, how are these conversations happening online, and where?” Jacob Bronstein, head of editorial and tageting at ByteDance, telderly the New York Times last month. “Genre comes second.”
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TikTok has had a transport inant impact on the unveiling industry and bestseller charts in the last confiinsist years. For authors such as Colleen Hoover and Sarah J Maas, BookTok clout has transpostpoinsistd to massive sales.
In May, the imprint will unveil Lacquireing to Fall by Peach Morris, which the unveiler portrays as a YA debut “about set up family and queer awakening, set in the energetic world of roller derby, perfect for fans of Whip It and Heartstopper”.
Other forthcoming print titles from 8th Note Press take part Marina Adair’s Love to Hate You, portrayd as a “up-to-date twist on You’ve Got Mail”, and time travel romance The Lost Saint by Rachael Craw, both coming in June.
Since begining in August 2023, 8th Note Press has unveiled ebook versions of a handful of titles including Gator Queen and Swamp Princess by Tara Lush, which are mystery romances, and Bespoke & Bespelled by Karen Healey, portrayd as a “witchy” romance.
