Everyone is focusing on the practical, so I'll point out a possible cultural reverberation this might have: there's a major subset of TikTok called BookTok and it's how many authors who aren't all that great have managed to get traction for their Write-By-Number romance/fantasy novels. The sales for these novels has been an unexpected net boon for the big box bookstores, because they aren't seeing those numbers from the traditional publishing houses that they have been catering to, outside of a few big name authors (think Grisham, Patterson, Kristen Hannah, Jack Carr, etc).
My point here is that a TikTok ban might also be a blowback for those bookstores as well. I'd be interested to see how they ride that out if this is the case.
Everyone is focusing on the practical, so I'll point out a possible cultural reverberation this might have: there's a major subset of TikTok called BookTok and it's how many authors who aren't all that great have managed to get traction for their Write-By-Number romance/fantasy novels. The sales for these novels has been an unexpected net boon for the big box bookstores, because they aren't seeing those numbers from the traditional publishing houses that they have been catering to, outside of a few big name authors (think Grisham, Patterson, Kristen Hannah, Jack Carr, etc).
My point here is that a TikTok ban might also be a blowback for those bookstores as well. I'd be interested to see how they ride that out if this is the case.