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Book Trailers? Has watching one every influenced you to buy the book?

 
 
Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 11:30 am
Book trailers are video based advertisements like movie trailers but for ...

books! They're the newest marketing tools of the publishing industry to build up buzz and potential word of mouth to ... of course... sell their newest books.

Has watching one every influenced you to buy the book if you weren't already inclined in buying the book (from word of mouth, after reading a positive book review, and/or were familiar with the author already?)

These trailers of course tend to be less sophisticated and more shoddy (video production wise) then their film trailer counterparts. Even independent movies with limited marketing budgets seem to know how to make more persuasive marketing products then the publishers. But still, the idea is quite a good one to draw new readers to read more.

This thread was inspired by the following CSMonitor.com article:
'You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll read the book!'
Book trailers are becoming essential marketing tools for the publishing industry.
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Arts/2012/0523/You-ll-laugh-you-ll-cry-you-ll-read-the-book!
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Lustig Andrei
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 12:33 pm
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
Book Trailers? Has watching one every influenced you to buy the book?


I have never watched one. Don't intend to ever watch one. Modern marketing methods, in my opinion, have gotten way, way out of hand.
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contrex
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 02:20 pm
I bought a book called "Naughty Nympho Nuns Illustrated" on the strength of the title alone, and I was not disappointed.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 03:22 pm
@tsarstepan,
i've watched a few after buying a book, YA author Maggie Stiefvater makes her own book trailers, some cool stuff, she writes and plays the music included as well




Butrflynet
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 05:19 pm
Haven't seen any book trailers, but we do a good majority of our book buying after watching interviews with the authors on CSPAN's BookTV show.
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Irishk
 
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Reply Wed 23 May, 2012 06:27 pm
@djjd62,
I had no idea.

Very cool!
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Tue 20 Aug, 2013 05:48 pm


J.J. Abrams’s Mystery Trailer Is for a Book
http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2013/08/20/20-jjabrams-mystery-1.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg
http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/jj-abramss-mystery-trailer-is-for-a-book.html
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