S*** Agents and Editors Say
For the last few weeks, “S*** People Say” videos have swept through YouTube, spawning trend pieces and anti-trend pieces.
The trend has finally arrived at the publishing industry with a S*** Agents and Editors Say video. Everybody from asp...
Book Haul Videos on YouTube
Over the past few years, video bloggers around YouTube have earned hundreds of thousands of views with book haul videos. Part of an exhibitionist tradition of haul videos that share shopping spree purchases, these dedicated readers show off new books....
Video: NBCC 2011 Finalists Annoucements at Artists Space, NYC
This video, taken earlier tonight at Artists Space in New York, NY, shows the NBCC 2011 Awards finalists announced in six categories, by 2010 NBCC winners and finalists Darin Strauss (Half a Life), Kathleen Graber (The Eternal City), Siddhartha Muk...
Video: Bookforum and NBCC at the Center for Fiction
Criticism Beyond Itself, The Center for Fiction, New York, NY, January 20, 2012.
Elif Batuman (a 2010 NBCC finalist in criticism for her collection The Possessed), novelist and critic Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances), and critic Mark Athi...
First Book Celebrations on YouTube
Earlier this week, debut YA novelist Jess Rothenberg videotaped herself dancing with the first copy of her book and a cat. We’ve embedded the video above, set to a classic tune from Flashdance.
First book celebrations are a small but inspiring g...
Behind the Book Trailer for ‘The Flame Alphabet’
That’s the spooky book video for Ben Marcus‘ new book, The Flame Alphabet. Artist and author Erin Cosgrove created the video, offering this important advice for aspiring book trailer makers: “do it out of enthusiasm, terror and fun...
McDonald’s Happy Meal Books & Dorian Grey Poupon: Top Stories of the Week
For your three-day weekend reading pleasure, here are the most popular stories of the week, including A Heartbreaking Shower Curtain of Staggering Genius, Captcha-inspired literature and books dancing in an empty bookstore (amazing video embedded abov...
Books Dance in Empty Bookstore
Celebrate “The Joy of Books” with the stop motion video embedded above–watch books frolicking inside a closed bookshop.
If the video inspires you to support your local bookstore, here are some links: Best Indie Bookstores on Twitter ...
Ron Paul Book Brings Christmas Tears
Have you ever gotten a book for Christmas that you didn’t want? Did it make you cry? Then you are not alone.
The above video shows a woman named Emily getting upset after receiving Ron Paul‘s book Liberty Defined as a Christmas gift. She...
Add Explosions to Your Book Trailer
The currently free Action Movie FX app will let Apple users add missile explosions and car crashes into your next book trailer.
As you can see by the video embedded above, this GalleyCat editor tested the program with his galley copy of Neil Gaiman...
