What We Are Reading Today: The Influencer Industry

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Updated 14 February 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: The Influencer Industry

Author: Emily Hund

Before there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked.

The Influencer Industry tells the story of how early digital creators scrambling for work amid the Great Recession gave rise to the multibillion-dollar industry that has fundamentally reshaped culture, the flow of information, and the way we relate to ourselves and each other.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

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Updated 13 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

  • It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera

Authors: TIE EIPPER AND SCOTT EIPPER 

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes.

It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera. It also covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category.