8th Note Press, launched last year by TikTok owner ByteDance as an e-book publisher, will begin publishing its first print books in the new year and will sell them in bookstores, according to the Guardian. The imprint will continue to focus on genres popular on BookTok: romance, contemporary fiction, YA, and romantasy. 8th Note Press is publishing in partnership with Zando, the publishing house founded in 2020 by Molly Stern, formerly of Crown Publishers. Zando has launched imprints and partnerships with a variety of companies and people, including Crooked Media, the Atlantic, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gillian Flynn.
The first 8th Note Press print title is On Screen & Off Again by Caitlin Cross, which will be published on February 4, followed on March 18 by The Last Man in Paradise by Syed M. Masood and To Have and Have More by Sanibel on April 15.
Jacob Bronstein, head of editorial and marketing at 8th Note Press, told the New York Times: "Expanding into print was always part of 8th Note's plan. Physical books are still overwhelmingly the most popular format, and certainly in specific genres, some of which we're playing in, they're still super important. So we knew that we needed to be in physical books."