While most booksellers are driven by their love of books, Booktopia was a business opportunity. At its height, it sold a book every three seconds. How did it fail?
- Research Fellow, Pathways to Teenage Reading, Deakin University
A new study has identified seven types of teen readers. It also found about 30% do not read in their free time.
Pre-pandemic, reading rates among teenagers were falling. But BookTok, a subculture of social media platform TikTok, has made teens read more often – and influences what they read. Here’s how it works.
We interviewed booksellers about their experience of the pandemic and their customers.
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