Tonight I've been looking for YouTubes that promote books.
I've found one that is really terrific: The History Book by Humphrey Hawksley: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb7hTOuYCgg
But, I've mainly found pretty boring interviews. You don't need any examples, you know what I'm talking about...public access television interview prototypes that have found their way to computer screens.
I've got to say that this John Grisham interview about Playing for Pizza posted by Barnes & Noble for its "Meet the Writers" series is good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDG8nRek19Y&feature=related
And this short promo is nice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKPyZliG3w8
What got me thinking about pairing YouTube with books? The funny video that made the rounds about 18 months ago: Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
Humor can be married with book promotions on YouTube with terrific success sometime fairly soon. I have complete faith in the creative class.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
YouTubes that make you wanna read a book
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