An excellent and highly recommended C-SPAN interview with NYT book reporter Elizabeth Harris (link below) piqued my interest, particularly Elizabeth’s response to Peter Slen’s question as to whether a review or a video on BookTok, a hashtag of TikTok, would be a more effective marketing tool, to which she unhesitatingly replied in favor of the BookTok video (that mirrors my own experience; a review, if positive make you feel good but does not increase sales). Another point she made is that of all the social media sites, BookTok is by far the most effective in producing sales.
In that TikTok’s appeal is to teenagers and younger, I first thought my writing would not be of interest to that demographic, so why list, but changed my mind, thinking the listing is free, and expanding the potential market for your material (TikTok has about a billion users) can’t hurt.
Alas, upon uploading the video to the TikTok site I found that the watermark TikTok adds to the video overwrote some of the text, and pulled the video while seeking a fix. An online search suggested several ways to remove the watermark after downloading the video, but not how to remove it from the uploaded video, which evidently can be done, as evidenced by several videos on the TikTok site that do not have the watermark. Anyone know how?
https://www.c-span.org/video/?523493...impact-booktok