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What's Your Favorite Book Trailer?

Watch book trailers and share links to your favorites.

Book trailers have emerged in the past few years as a new way to advertise novels. They’re like movie trailers, but they only seem to be online, not on TV.

The first book trailer I watched was for Meg Waite Clayton’s book The Wednesday Sisters, which we read in my book club.

Initially, I thought I was watching a movie trailer, and that this book was being made into a movie. Then I started to discover more book trailers.

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Some are very creative and clever. The Moby Awards honored the best and worst book trailers of 2011. How Did You Get This Number won for Book Trailer As a Standalone Art Object.

I have to agree with that. It does stand alone. I like that trailer a lot. I don't know how the book will be. I'm going to check it out at the library. So I guess in this case, the trailer worked.

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If you want to watch some trailers for young adult novels, try the Novel Novice website. They are specifically geared toward young adult fiction.

I recently came across a website where an author named Elle LaPraim picked out 10 of her favorite book trailers and wrote a little blurb about why she likes each of them. (You have to scroll down at that site to see the trailers.)

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