to protect commercial ships in the red sea. countries joining the security group include the uk, france, canada, bahrain, norway and spain. it comes after the energy giant, bp, suspended its shipping operations through the red sea because cargo vessels are being attacked by houthi rebels from yemen. this is the route taken by around 12% of world shipping which then passes through the suez canal. but several major freight companies have now stopped passing through here. because of the risk. instead they are taking the much longer route all the way around africa via the cape of good hope. that adds costs and delays. here s the us defense secretary lloyd austin. these attacks are reckless, dangerous and they violate international law. we are taking action to build an international coalition to address the threat. i would remind you that this is not just a us issue, this is an international problem and it deserves an international response. joining me now is marc 0stwald, chief e
bases to india and for the impact to actually have an impact to actually have an impact on the ground and local manufacturing to be used. qm. manufacturing to be used. 0k, archana shukla, manufacturing to be used. 0k, archana shukla, thank you for joining us from mumbai. readers purchased 825 million copies of print books in the us in 2021 and analysts believe young people posting about books on social media played a big role in the sales. tiktok doesn t seem like the obvious place for books, but the bestsellers list is being influenced by it. the #booktok hashtag has attracted 40.4 billions of views thanks to tikbook influencers on tiktok and is creating new bestsellers and shaping the publishing worldin under a minute, users film books they want you to read and record time lapses of themselves reading or show their reactions to a moment in the novel, ideally with emotion. and the book retailers have noticed. so how is booktok changing what we read?
books they want you to read and record timelapses of themselves reading or show their reactions to a moment in the novel ideally with emotion. and the book retailers have noticed. so how is #booktok changing what we read and is it bringing new customers to retailers? joining me now is shannon devito, director of books at barnes & noble. thank you forjoining us live from new york. your organisation has a dedicated #booktok page? we organisation has a dedicated #booktok page? organisation has a dedicated #booktok page? organisation has a dedicated #booktok nae? ~ ., ., #booktok page? we found a page onfine #booktok page? we found a page online but we #booktok page? we found a page online but we have #booktok page? we found a page online but we have been #booktok page? we found a page online but we have been able - #booktok page? we found a page online but we have been able to i online but we have been able to utilise our locations around the country to kind of use our bookselle