ABOUT THE NEWSPAPER:
YouTube for the Bookish?
YouTube.com is the second most
visited website in the world - where over 1.9 billion logged-in users visit
each month. And each day, people watch over a billion hours of video and
generate billions of views. While many people are aware of the music videos,
make-up channels and gaming channels on the platform, far fewer know about the
great bookish content available on YouTube. BookTube is a community of content
creators on YouTube that film videos about books. The BookTube Your Shelf Daily
Reader is a daily online newspaper featuring social shares from booktubers
(including authortubers) and some bookish neighbors (like bloggers and
readers). Are you familiar with BookTube?
Once
Upon A Time...
Between changes in YouTube's
algorithm and my book reading taste, it was a struggle for me to keep up with
my favorite booktubers and keep a look-out for new booktubers. I knew many
other fans of BookTube were having similar problems.
When YouTube changed it's
monetization rules in early 2018, many people, including myself, worried about
it's overall impact on small content creators. As I looked at my personal
BookTube channel list, I thought, "What can I do to help support and
encourage bookish content creators?" Then poof! The idea for The BookTube
Your Shelf Daily Reader popped into my head. [Yes, with a poof]. What
started out as an idea in March of 2018 has morphed into a passion project with
an online newspaper and email newsletter.
Find
Your Next Favorite...
One of the goals of The BookTube
Your Shelf Daily Reader project is to help you find your next favorite
booktuber. Check out the Videos section of TBYSDR for suggestions on bookish
YouTube videos to watch. It features over 25 videos each day. https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1517059010#/videos
Another
goal of the project is to help you find your next great read. In The BookTube
Your Shelf web newspaper, you'll find a variety of posts like:
·
Book
News
·
Book
Giveaways
·
Book
Reviews
·
Videos
about Books
·
Videos
about Reading
·
Videos
about Writing
·
Book
Trailers
Don't
Miss A Thing.
Don't struggle with searching for
book-related videos in the YouTube hay stack. Subscribe to The BookTube
Your Shelf Daily Reader Email Newsletter to have the paper delivered to
your email inbox.
Be sure to "Like"
the TBYSDR Facebook page to stay up-to-date on the latest edition.
But
wait... there's more!
During March I will be hosting a
month-long event called BookTube Z to A, highlighting BookTube channels on
YouTube, at the Readeropolis book blog. Look for the hashtag #BookTubeZtoA on
your favorite social sites.
You can follow all of the
anniversary celebration events by joining the Facebook anniversary event
page (click "Going" to get updates):
So,
let's chat in in the comments.
Do you watch book-related videos
on YouTube? What are some of your favorite BookTube Channels?
Have you checked out the
latest edition of The BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader?
BookTube, keep doing what you're
doing. You're hands down amazing!
About Sonni:
Mayor Sonni: Reader extraordinaire.
Mayor of the Readeropolis book blog. Content curator. Lover of books, lists,
sweet tea, and vacations. Well, not necessarily in that order.
Are you
connected? You can find her all over the Internet under the handle
Readeropolis.
Event Giveaway
Happy Anniversary to Readeropolis! Thanks for the giveaway! I've never really watched anything on youtube besides music videos, but I'll be sure to check them out.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting the anniversary tour! I really appreciate it. I included this post in the Friday, Mar. 22, 2019 edition of The BookTube Your Shelf Daily Reader: https://paper.li/Readeropolis/1517059010#/
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