[Arrgh]

Any good ones out there? I've seen three so far from clicking links from various blogs. All three made me wonder why they'd bothered. They certainly didn't make me want to run out and buy the book. If anything I'm less likely to buy the book after the waste of time and bandwidth that was the "trailer".

The forth and final book trailer I tried crashed my browser when I clicked the link.

[Takoren]

I'm not even sure I know of any book trailers. Could you point some out?

[Arrgh]

I'm not even sure I know of any book trailers. Could you point some out?


Ok, I haven't read this but what do silent film music and random still photos of some countryside and fireworks have to do with the book? I don't like the music. Do people who like that sort of book like silent film music? Am I just not the target audience?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4624895487087865391

[Wulfa_Jones]

I've only seen one and that was for Court of the Air. It was a little flash cartoon that was on YouTube.

I only came across it, having read the book and wanting to find some reviews on it.

I don't think it would have sold me on it.

Comic book publishers have started doing this quite a lot now as well - but at least with them there is art work that can be used.

[BrightStar]

I didn't even know that they made trailers for books, until I came across the Tairen Soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOsXPbfXa40) trailer. I was very impressed by the Tairen Soul series, but the trailer would have done absuloubtly nothing to encourage me to buy the book. If anything, the trailer would have put me off. It seems kinda amatuer(sp?)-ish and this would have reflected upon my assumptions about the book - I would have thought them to be equally of low quality.

It doesn't make sense, to me, to produce a trailer for a book. A book is a written artform, and there's something almost taken away from the experience of reading if the reader is shown these things, rather than being allowed to experience and imagine them for themselves.

[wwfward]

Yeah, I never did like book trailers. Book brochures or pdf guides might work to expand on the back cover.

EDIT: Oh God, I just watched the Tairen Soul trailer. Terrible.

[Ademona]

Okay, the Tairen Soul trailer is just comical. Good thing I'm the only one still at the office, because I could not keep myself from cracking up. Did anyone else read the comments? "That was fantastic!" and "Very engaging and reader-provoking" are the exact opposite of how I'd describe that lame excuse for promoting a book.

I have yet to see a book trailer which has motivated me to go out and purchase a book. In fact, if I watch a trailer for a book I'm interested in, I think it's safe to say that I'll buy it despite the horrible trailer.

"I think this video is excellent." Really? Do you really?

[Bear]

Most book trailers are embarrassing, but I was fine with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73f3LWZALE

Granted, it could be that I think Tilda Swinton is fantastic in damn near everything she does, but it was solid enough. I enjoyed the book as well.

[Bear]

Whoa. I just watched the Tairen Soul trailer. Holy hell. I choked on my drink when the dragon graphic came on.

[BrightStar]

The Tairen Soul trailer is, imo, pretty awful. Having already read books 1 and 2 before I stumbled upon that trailer, when I saw the trailer for the first time, I just wanted to cry at the sheer horror of it.

I first came accross this trailer on the author's official site. So it was even more shudder-inducing for me, having read the books that this trailer is trying to promote (and enjoying them immensely) to then discover the author promoting this piece of... of... rubbish.

I wonder why authors agree to subject their books to this kinda thing. It's a disaster and it wouldn't make me want to buy the book. More likely to be the oppsotie, in fact. I believe the author of Tairen Soul is a newly published author, and I think she might have gotten carried away by the idea of seeing her characters (all of whom I'm sure she must love immensely) "come to life". But the trailer (and most book trailers in general) do little to nothing to encourage me to buy a book.