tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post3265949783788700358..comments2023-01-24T04:05:35.065-06:00Comments on Alison Can Read: Book Trailers: Yay or Nay?Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10161357580448621274noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-29910028110647557652012-07-19T12:18:47.921-05:002012-07-19T12:18:47.921-05:00I am usually nay on a book trailer but that&#39;s ...I am usually nay on a book trailer but that&#39;s because most of them are not made well. The ones that are made well however usually influence me to pick up a book or add it to my TBR for example - Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse and Hold Still by Nina LaCour. I loved these trailers and because of them instantly added the books to my goodreads TBR. I love watching movie trailers however so that&#39;s probably also why I don&#39;t mind taking 2 minutes to watch a book trailer.Sandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842315793902005771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-75188157323051007742011-10-04T16:08:00.000-05:002011-10-04T16:08:00.000-05:00I actually love a well -made book trailer. I&#39;v...I actually love a well -made book trailer. I&#39;ve definitely been convinced to read a book by watching one. One notable example is Miss Peregrine&#39;s Home for Peculiar Children. I had no intention of picking that one up until I saw the book trailer. I agree that it is quicker to just read a summary, but a well made trailer gets the mood of the book across very well.Cialina at Muggle-Born.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15149012619221886587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-38796027429197189802011-10-01T20:59:46.949-05:002011-10-01T20:59:46.949-05:00I&#39;m with you-Nay all the way. I&#39;ve yet to ...I&#39;m with you-Nay all the way. I&#39;ve yet to see a book trailer that made me think I wanted to read a particular book. I&#39;d much rather read the blurb that gives me some idea what the book is about.Lisa Richards/alterlisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00347858402988565314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-65789712369432513402011-09-30T21:31:59.443-05:002011-09-30T21:31:59.443-05:00I&#39;m with you on the nay side. I don&#39;t have...I&#39;m with you on the nay side. I don&#39;t have time to watch them, and the sound on computer usually isn&#39;t on anyways, so there isn&#39;t much point. I much prefer a cover and summary.Sarah Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10671051704990208661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-74266681214452023462011-09-30T12:40:37.764-05:002011-09-30T12:40:37.764-05:00I think they&#39;re a great idea, and I watch some...I think they&#39;re a great idea, and I watch some of them. Though, they are usually already for books that I know I&#39;ll read or am anxiously waiting for.brandileigh2003https://www.blogger.com/profile/01669251993917961293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-76532891543251820282011-09-30T09:57:21.379-05:002011-09-30T09:57:21.379-05:00I&#39;m a &quot;nay&quot; too. If I want to decide...I&#39;m a &quot;nay&quot; too. If I want to decide on a movie or tv show to watch, I&#39;ll &quot;watch&quot; the trailer. If I want to decide what to read, I&#39;ll &quot;read&quot; the summary or reviews. I don&#39;t want a trailer putting preconceived notions about the setting and characters -- I want to create that in my head as I read.Annette Millshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13850197520930988077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-6004793885325268412011-09-30T00:15:41.692-05:002011-09-30T00:15:41.692-05:00I&#39;ve watched three book trailers. Two were on ...I&#39;ve watched three book trailers. Two were on YouTube and one was actually a commercial on TV. The TV commercial happened to be for an author whose books I already read. I bought that book. The others, though, no.<br /><br />Mostly I read books based on book blogger reviews.pussrebootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02167235847991793325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-8361330467036839432011-09-29T23:28:21.020-05:002011-09-29T23:28:21.020-05:00I actually like book trailers. I have a facebook ...I actually like book trailers. I have a facebook page that goes with my YA Book Club on goodreads.com and I try to get the younger crowd excited about our monthly book reads by posting the trailer. Whether or not it works... who knows? But I hope it sparks interest. <br /><br />AngieAngela's Anxious Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01935144213302758223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-25947870460680003632011-09-29T22:17:34.455-05:002011-09-29T22:17:34.455-05:00I&#39;m with you on the nay. I think they are a go...I&#39;m with you on the nay. I think they are a good idea in theory, but don&#39;t normally want to take the time to watch them. And when I actually do, it&#39;s for a book I&#39;m already excited about and can&#39;t wait to read.Shoshanahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15707241263291051104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-81198602923942012712011-09-29T20:46:53.565-05:002011-09-29T20:46:53.565-05:00Please excuse the typos....I have &quot;Tired Thur...Please excuse the typos....I have &quot;Tired Thursday Syndrome&quot;....can&#39;t wait for 5:00 PM tomorrow....Lol. : )Maria Beharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635809880830316283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-53112677238124530812011-09-29T20:39:18.779-05:002011-09-29T20:39:18.779-05:00I don&#39;t think they make me want to buy the boo...I don&#39;t think they make me want to buy the book they&#39;re just an added bonus, and like someone said above, if it&#39;s done almost like a movie trailer then I enjoy those (Enclave being an example. I loved that trailer. Bedbugs another one that was pretty good.) There are a few however that aren&#39;t movie-ish that I enjoy too. I guess it really just depends on how they are made.Ashley @ Bookaholics Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17547219343580390070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-84401773572625677302011-09-29T20:34:57.876-05:002011-09-29T20:34:57.876-05:00Since I am a very visual person by nature, I&#39;m...Since I am a very visual person by nature, I&#39;m all for book trailers! Still, I won&#39;t base my purchase of a book only on watching a book trailer. I&#39;ll still want to look it up on Goodreads and Amazon, where I can not only read the synopsis, but also some reviews. <br /><br />I do find book traileers enjoyable, even if they&#39;re sometimes too abstract. i consider them an art form -- they are part movie, part painting/sculpture, part musical composition. I do believe they enhance the experience of the book itself. <br /><br />Another thing about trailers -- they can give a reader an idea of how the book would look as a movie. Many books never make it to the silver screen, and I think that&#39;s sad. There are many books I&#39;ve read that I believe would have made excellent movies, and they were never turned into films. So a book trailer is satisfying to me in this regard. Two books I read recently would make great movies -- &quot;Abandon&quot;, by Meg Cabot, and &quot;Die For Me&quot;, by Amy Plum. &quot;Nightshade&quot; and &quot;Wolfsbane&quot; (I&#39;m currently reading the first one) would also make great movies. They might never become movies, though. At leasts the book trailers give me a taste of what these movies might be like.<br /><br />My two cents!! : )<br /><br />Maria @ http://anightsdreamofbooks.blogspot.com/Maria Beharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635809880830316283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-58633894332836183552011-09-29T20:34:09.590-05:002011-09-29T20:34:09.590-05:00I don&#39;t usually watch them. Too often I&#39;ve...I don&#39;t usually watch them. Too often I&#39;ve tried and they&#39;ve turned me off of a book.<br /><br />That said there are a few I love, I usually only will watch those when others say how great they are!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-43488991916747975192011-09-29T17:48:14.211-05:002011-09-29T17:48:14.211-05:00I was fairly indifferent to book trailers until it...I was fairly indifferent to book trailers until it came time to make my own lol. I watched a few to get some ideas of what I liked and didn&#39;t like, and ended up really loving a few. There are some truly terrible ones out there though. I wouldn&#39;t necessarily say they affect whether I read a book or not, but there have been a few that have been so good they got me interested in reading a book when I might not have otherwise been interested. I&#39;m a very visual person, so I do tend to enjoy watching trailers now, even though I didn&#39;t care that much before. I don&#39;t generally seek them out, but if someone sends me one, or someone has one posted on their blog, or even if YouTube recommends one based on my tastes, I&#39;ll usually watch them.SweetMarie83https://www.blogger.com/profile/12518239232924662332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-39633506713374013872011-09-29T15:29:08.393-05:002011-09-29T15:29:08.393-05:00I&#39;m pretty picky about which trailers I&#39;ll...I&#39;m pretty picky about which trailers I&#39;ll watch. If they look like mini movies, I usually love them. But if they are just a bunch of pictures falling on each other, I don&#39;t have time for that. <br /><br />My favs are the ones for The Perfect Chemistry series. I even watched the &quot;making of&quot; videos. *be&#39;s a dork*Missie, The Unread Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10548256640926555361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-8572084401092228452011-09-29T14:06:37.532-05:002011-09-29T14:06:37.532-05:00I&#39;m not interested. I have watched a few afte...I&#39;m not interested. I have watched a few after the book to see if I like them but haven&#39;t got into them to help choose a book to read etc.Marcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10136238772526246675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-13186160845704149572011-09-29T13:22:53.350-05:002011-09-29T13:22:53.350-05:00I&#39;m not usually impressed by book trailers, th...I&#39;m not usually impressed by book trailers, though I understand that there usually isn&#39;t a big budget for them. Like you, I&#39;d rather read a synopsis to get what I want, unless it&#39;s a particularly good one like The Wolves of Mercy Falls, Miss Peregrine&#39;s Home for Peculiar Children, etc.Ayleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07639250102446794830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-11207170838554439442011-09-29T12:25:10.027-05:002011-09-29T12:25:10.027-05:00I honestly don&#39;t like to watch embedded videos...I honestly don&#39;t like to watch embedded videos on my computer in general so nay to trailers although i know that some people like them.Sniffly Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16625818304443563472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-36765469869173227372011-09-29T11:20:14.479-05:002011-09-29T11:20:14.479-05:00To be honest I can&#39;t say they make me buy a bo...To be honest I can&#39;t say they make me buy a book. I know that I watch them if I seriously cannot wait to read a book, for example in a series, or if it&#39;s from a book I loved. Otherwise, I usually don&#39;t. I see it as something fun more for fans than actual help when considering buying, I guess.<br /><br />Rebecca<br /><a href="http://rebgeo.net/" rel="nofollow">Kindle Fever</a>Bexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01456550817122908083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-26770753336146912972011-09-29T10:40:03.884-05:002011-09-29T10:40:03.884-05:00I&#39;m not a huge fan of book trailers. Like you ...I&#39;m not a huge fan of book trailers. Like you said, in theory they&#39;re great. But, I just can&#39;t get into them. I usually drawn in by the cover and synopsis of a story. I feel like most trailers give away too much information and I don&#39;t want that info until I read the book.<br /><br />Plus, the reason I usually like to watch trailers is because of the actors. Most book trailer actors are average at best and don&#39;t interest me. Put Ewan McGregor in a book trailer and I&#39;ll definitely watch. He doesn&#39;t even have to do anything other than stand there and look pretty. ;)Jenni Elysehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403700912436098391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-82943499014151044062011-09-29T10:28:14.975-05:002011-09-29T10:28:14.975-05:00I only seen one book trailer I&#39;ve really liked...I only seen one book trailer I&#39;ve really liked. The rest, I tend to avoid. That being said, I understand why authors want them. I made one for my book and posted it on my blog and the result was someone bought (and enjoyed) my book. So they do work. Are they for everyone? Nope. But they do have a place I believe.Patricia JLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582005500429122486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-12398698998854420842011-09-29T10:10:13.731-05:002011-09-29T10:10:13.731-05:00ummm..typing too fast...*I&#39;m obsessed (as if y...ummm..typing too fast...*I&#39;m obsessed (as if you couldnt tell what it said)Sherrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05132055588504532128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-78978686175579394952011-09-29T10:09:33.219-05:002011-09-29T10:09:33.219-05:00Book trailers are a hit or miss with me. I guess i...Book trailers are a hit or miss with me. I guess it depends if it&#39;s a book that I&#39;m waiting to read like the Infernal Devices series or Where She Went (which was awesome by the way and I watched it repeatedly). I&#39;ve also seen some really bad ones. I just think this phenomenon is still a bit new to really make a solid discussion.Rummanah Aasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12119402559076729383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-2887421814475309952011-09-29T10:09:23.650-05:002011-09-29T10:09:23.650-05:00Nay here as well. I mean theyre okay, but I usuall...Nay here as well. I mean theyre okay, but I usually end up looking at them after I&#39;ve already read the book, and mainly because I&#39;m mobsessed with all things relating to that book. The point of the trailer is to get people to read your book, not to make obsessed readers fall that much more in love. Hence the reason I say its really unnecessary. Dont spend time and money on something thats only going to attract people you&#39;ve already gotten time and money out of.Sherrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05132055588504532128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1798065526948874468.post-14887091153754298812011-09-29T09:31:37.122-05:002011-09-29T09:31:37.122-05:00Book trailers I can usually take or leave. For boo...Book trailers I can usually take or leave. For books I&#39;m really excited about I enjoy watching the trailers because it gives me a different creative aspect to the book I&#39;m dying to read, but I don&#39;t necessarily run to You Tube and devour every one I can find:)Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14199685365145765394noreply@blogger.com
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