Books Find Their Way To YouTube

Book Trailers are the hottest new entertainment in publishing. Watch scenes from a book play out on YouTube  and learn more about a storyline before you purchase the book.  Whether you’re an avid reader or an occasional one, book trailers are an easy and entertaining way to find books you’d like to read.

The channel is http://www.youtube.com/booktrailers and you can find anything from book video to author interviews.  The manager of the YouTube Book Trailer site offers embed code to other sites like booksellers sites, libraries and specialty sites as free content.  You contact info@cosproductions.com for the code that will put the player on your site and new material will show up automatically.  It’s a great way to get content about books that is both informative and entertaining.  You can also link directly to individual videos or subscribe to the videos from your own YouTube site.

Every genre of book is represented and new material is put up each week.  As more and more sites look for new and exciting content to help increase traffic to their website YouTube increases in popularity.  For sites that attract readers or include news on the entertainment industry, the book trailer YouTube site is a great way to interest not only readers, but those interested in mainstream entertainment.

Sheila Clover English of Circle of Seven Productions, the leader in book trailer productions, says, “This is a great way to entertain and inform the public about books and their stories.  We hope to see Book Trailers do for the publishing industry what music videos did for the music industry.”

English goes on to say, “We have several booksellers and specialty sites that take our book video for their own site. We’ve set up the YouTube player because people are familiar with YouTube, but we do offer other delivery methods and formats.” 

Several of the trailers on the YouTube book trailer site have won prestigious awards such as the Telly Awards and Davey Awards as well as many local awards.  As they become more and more popular the production value will increase and book trailers will come closer to evolving like music videos did in the 1980’s. 

Many television sites are scrambling to find original material and new entertainment venues to attract viewers, some of them paying thousands of dollars for online content.  Book trailers allow books to be seen as mainstream entertainment in a visual venue like movies, television, music and video games.