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What is a Booktuber?

BookTube is a specific subset of the YouTube community that focuses on the topic of books. While the majority of BookTubers focus on Young Adult literature, many address other types, such as classics, science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, children's literature, comics, romance, and non-fiction.

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Why should I check out Booktube channels?

Booktubers are voracious readers.

They are consuming books in large quantities via print, ebooks, and audio books.

Watching their reviews good and bad, the types of books they are drawn to, why similar books had different effects on them, how they interact, who they're interacting with, where are they getting their books, who are their sponsors, what are their experiences with authors, with other readers, what scandal is going down in the literary world, etc etc is a great learning opportunity.

You'll learn what kinds of covers are popular for what genre. How authors failed in world building. What kind of books are currently popular.

You've never been to a book convention?... well, go on the journey with one of them. Listen to their pros and cons so you can can prepare your first time going to one.

A lot of writing is research and booktubers give you plenty of info in various forms.

Think about it this way, Disney doesn't just put out whatever without studying data and demographics. So look around booktube and find the booktubers that represent your audience and analyze what works and doesn't work. This could save you when you're choosing what project to work on. A or B? B might be out of fashion amongst your targeted audience.

We also recommend connecting when possible with booktubers in their comments section, and social media. [Please do not stalk or harass.] You never know when you'll make a friend or a collection of friends. Many of them accept books for review, but be prepared for unfiltered honesty. But as they say, a bad review does sell books.

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Warning

Do not get sucked into YouTube. Schedule time to watch and learn, but you should spend most of your time actually writing.

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(Posted in no particular order.)

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[Readwithcindy]

Cindy is very irreverent, self-depricating, and a smartass. Her reviews are fun and well thought out. She reads anything, which includes self-help, managerial, art books, on top of the fiction and non-fic she reads.

She is known for combining book challenges, for not hoarding books, and honesty. (She's known for many things, this is just pretext to talk about book challenges 😂.)

Book challenges or "tags" and read-athon are booktube communal activities in which one booktuber makes a list of either questions to answer in a video or makes a list of types of books to read within a certain timeframe.

Example: During Black History month someone might make a month long challenge to read books by black authors and call it Black-athon. They might add more elements to the challenge like 1) one book must be romance 2) another book must have lgbtq representation 3) book with a blue cover 4) book with a title that starts with your first initial 5) book that includes a pet or significant animal

Example: Someone might tag other booktubers with a list of questions. Once they answer those questions in a video, they tag others, so it forms a chains of tagged folks. If someone is new, they might look up previous tags and do them on their own, until they become more established and know others to tag and visa versa. Usually the first tag a booktuber will do is the "newbie tag". This tag has questions that introduces the new booktuber to the community (be it those who just watch videos or other booktubers).

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[The Naughty Librarian]

Amanda will read just about anything, but leans towards more mature content. One of her videos literally opens up with "Look at all this smutt!!"

She is one third of the Wicked Spirits Book Club. A vast majority of her books come from used library book sales. She does book hauls, unhauls, wrap ups (group reviews of the books she read during a certain period), TBR lists, and the occasional trip to a book signing or fair.

Book clubs usually take turns uploading their newest live episode on each account and will announce who will hold the next episode and what the book will be so fans can find it and hopefully read along and participate in the live comment section.

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[KrimsonRogue]

Though it is tempting to just watch reviews done by women, it's recommended to watch reviews by different types of people. KrimsonRogue reads various books including popular ones and gives a blow by blow review where many give an overall review.

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[StarlahReads]

Starla reads a wide range of books, though she shies away from overly romantic content. She tends to like sci-fi, lgbtq, minty, nd disability reads.

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[Beautifully Bookish Bethany]

Bethany reads a shit ton of books and neatly keeps track of her reading habits. She does huge book hauls, unboxings, and reviews every single book she reads.

She just got a ton of books from BookCon and BookExpo that she's working her way through, so a lot of what she reads are what's currently popular.

BookCon & BookExpo America (BEA) are conventions that take place in New York city the capital of publishing, during the same time period (somewhere between May & June). Both conventions are to promote the newest book releases. They are places to 1) see what's coming out soon 2) get free books 3) buy books 4) get autographs/meet and greet 5) go to panels 6) bookish parties 7) buy a booth to promote yourself/publisher 8) network. Neither convention is free. BookCon is mostly for regular folks, so it's more crowded and rowdy. It has some free books at publishing booths, but it's first come first serve and the drops are spread throughout the 3 days. BookExpo is more geared towards librarians, bookstores, and other industry professionals like booktubers. You have to apply to get in. Its a lot easier at BEA to get free books.

Bethany is the creator of the Social Distancing Book Fest.

(We'll make a chapter specifically for conventions & bookish events.)

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[The Poptemist]

Though booktube is predominantly young and female, there are those who definitely are not and bring 1) a different perspective and 2) read outside of YA.

Poptamist tends to lean towards non-fiction and adult oriented books.

I suggest stepping out of your comfort zones and checking out different types of booktubers, even if you do not particularly read their type of books or are of their age, race, country, culture, country, sexual preference, etc.

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[Paperbackdreams]

This is a college student that has very thorough and humorous review process. She tends to read YA, NA, and crossovers.

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[John Lawchamp]

John is an author, but has just started talking more about his writing, so we're sticking him on this list. Which if you are planning to write and have a YouTube channel, you can see that you can be a booktuber or authortuber or a hybrid. Some writers choose not to review books so as not to offend people they might meet or network with. Some writers don't feel comfortable giving advice. Whatever you choose, just be authentic. Don't worry that much about editing and backdrops, just be you.

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[Noria Reads]

Noria is good at wanting to participate in community activities. She created the fuckathon tag. The video below is of her doing an "unboxing," that's when they receive a package from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, the Book Depository, Book Outlet, and other online book retails or from a book subscription service like Book of the Month, or Owl Crate, etc. Consider researching these book subscription services and seeing if they would wanna distribute your book, or at minimum, distribute your bookmarks, postcards, business cards, etc. They are looking for swag to put in those boxes. Use them to promote yourself to their subscribers.

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[Completely Melanie]

Book hauls are when booktubers show off the books they bought or received, this includes unboxings. If you LOVE book hauls... Melanie is your gal. Some of you might wonder why you might wanna watch hauls, but it's an easy way to see what books are currently on the market. Some haul older books, and if you write in a particular genre, you're gonna wanna learn about the books that have come before in that genre. Also, some booktubers will talk about the books and authors, so you get an education, such as previous pen names, previous series, upcoming books/sequels, publishers, etc. Many booktubers also get coupon codes for online reatilers, so look out for those so you purchase your books for less. You can even pass on those code to help out your fans and followers. Fans like writers who look out for them. And... if your book is already for sale on that site... they can turn around and use the code to buy your book.

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[Cameron Chaney]

Cameron is a BIG horror fan. He reads any and all horror books, even horror adjacent. YA, MG, NA, Adult, indie, anthologies, you name it. His collection of horror is impressive and educational. He'll teach you about old presses, reprints, Indies, etc.
(He is a writer, but focuses his channel on reviews and hauls)

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[Adam Cesare]

Adam is a ex-teacher that loves pairing horror movies with books and books with movies.
Very knowledgeable on both. (Adam is another indie writer. He's got a few books out.)

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[ChapterStackss]

Chapter Stackss mostly focuses on thriller, but goes into horror as well. She mostly reads adult books, but will do YA books occassionally.

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[Margaret Adelle]

Margaret's focus is indie books. She'll read just about anything, and when her TBR list isn't too big, she is usually accepting books for review. Before you send her anything, make sure to look at her latest "review policy" video. (Below are her policies as of the moment I post this chapter. 2019.) I've talked to her and she's super friendly and fair. She's honest, so send her your A-game. Make sure you are prepared to get the hosts truth.

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[James Tullos]

James focuses mostly on fantasy and high fantasy (YA - Adult), but occasionally will read YA paranormal and contemporary.

I highly suggest watching all his videos on world building.

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[mynameismarines]

Marines (Mah-ree-nes) has discussions, reviews, she has a podcast, and is part of those who developed the convention "BookNet Fest."

https://booknetfest.com/

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[Jenny Nicholson]

Jenny likes to cover nerdy topics like Star Wars, My Little Pony, etc. One of her favorite things to do is to buy the weirdest book she can find on Amazon or looking them up here WP.

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[BooksandLala]

Lala is pretty well known throughout the community. She is known for coming up with new ideas. Below is a video about unhauls. Unhauls are the opposite of hauls, as in, they are getting rid of books. Why should you watch unhauls? You learn why someone doesn't like a book or why they didn't like it enough not to keep it.

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We will make sure to post more booktubers in the future
along with authortubers.

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If you are a booktuber or a authortuber please send us the link and we'll make a special chapter for those from our community. 🐺