{"id":32,"date":"2011-04-05T12:37:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-04-05T12:37:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T16:37:29","slug":"on-book-trailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"On Book Trailers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still a little fuzzy as to how we live in a world where book trailers exist.\u00a0 Do people really watch these things?\u00a0 I’ve never seen one tweeted, posted to Facebook, etc.\u00a0 And it’s not like I don’t know people who read.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s a logical extension of cover art.\u00a0 You’ve got your text.\u00a0 You want to give someone a sense of what’s inside, and you want to do so in fractions of seconds.\u00a0 Sword, glowy magic, vaguely celtic rune thing. Vector illustration of a thin, racially-neutral woman smiling while walking.\u00a0 Black and white picture of some dudes in uniform.<\/p>\n

(This leads to some trends<\/a>, of course.)<\/p>\n

With the creation and distribution of video content becoming less expensive by the moment, why not extend this to a trailer?\u00a0 Makes sense, I suppose.<\/p>\n

I’m currently reading Zero History<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Haven’t read any Gibson since Neuromancer<\/em>, and wanted to see what’s up.\u00a0 Not only did I not realize it was part of loose series, I didn’t realize it was about clothes.\u00a0 Clothes<\/em>.\u00a0 The surprise has been part of the enjoyment for me; would I have picked it up from the trailer?<\/p>\n

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