So, ever since my YA librarianship class, I’ve enjoyed scouring the interwebs for fun book trailers. What’s amazing to me is that most of the book trailers are made by fans (or librarians in training?), not publishers. So, these are truly recommended by the people that took their own personal time to make a book trailer. These books are also ones that I would recommend as well.
This is my favorite of the trailers:
Too much fun, right?
Book trailers are a great idea and I am glad that fans and librarians are in the forefront. The short video is a tremendous venue for promoting the books we love. Thanks for the post.
You’re welcome! I’m glad that you think they’re important, too! The well done videos draw me in, even if they’re not books I would normally read. Thanks for reading!
I’ve always been relaly torn when it comes to book trailers. On the one hand, I like to see books advertised to a wider audience that might not, normally, hear about them. But on the other hand, every book trailer I’ve ever seen was relaly kind of hokey and looked like someone with no experience in advertising or graphics got ahold of it (not to mention the melodramatic narrators. I might have seen one, in my whole life, that was good, but like you I don’t remember what book it was about.If I ever saw a relaly good book trailer, I think I’d be jazzed. But it’s difficult to do since there are no visual images to go along with it. I mean, it IS a book and not a movie/tv show. And I doubt publishers would put the sort of budget into it that would allow for more visual trailers, so I just don’t know.