BookTube

English

Etymology

Blend of book +‎ YouTube. By surface analysis, book +‎ -Tube.

Proper noun

BookTube

1. The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.
   • 2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, page 96:

     By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.

   • 2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271:

     I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.

   • 2019, Rose Brock, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition, page 30:

     Booktube is a small community in YouTube that has exploded during these past few years.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:BookTube.

Hypernyms

• Bookternet

Coordinate terms

• Booklr (Tumblr)
• Bookstagram (Instagram)
• BookTok (TikTok)

Derived terms

• booktuber