Bookstagram: How a Visual Hashtag Reshaped the Publishing World

Bookstagram: How a Visual Hashtag Reshaped the Publishing World

The New Literary Gatekeepers: How Instagram Rewrote the Rules of Publishing The publishing industry, long a bastion of tradition governed by established critics and secretive acquisition meetings, was fundamentally disrupted not by a corporate rival, but by its own customers. Armed with smartphones and a passion for aesthetics, a decentralized network of readers on Instagram—dubbed […]