http://www.metafilter.com/60891/Books-on-Video/ Comments on MetaFilter post Books on Video Fri, 04 May 2007 14:20:22 -0800 Fri, 04 May 2007 14:20:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/60891/Books-on-Video <a href="http://www.cannell.com/locations.php?id=14&k=815c0a9da9d36f65fc81bd0f3f5f59af">Watch your favorite novel!</a> More and more <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGVOfsnHtIY">novelists</a> are creating videos of their <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ZRqSQoDboA">books</a>. Even <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2_KszEnlq0&mode=related&search=">Hemingway</a> is getting in on it. post:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.60891 Fri, 04 May 2007 13:08:30 -0800 CameraObscura Hemingway Connelly Patterson Stephen J. Cannell http://www.metafilter.com/60891/Books-on-Video#1679870 There are known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailer_%28book%29">Book Trailers</a> which are basically like movie trailers, to hook readers into buying the book. The Hemingway video is not a book trailer but won the 1999 Academy Award for animation, created by Russian artist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Petrov_%28animator%29">Aleksandr Petrov</a>, amazing work. comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.60891-1679870 Fri, 04 May 2007 14:20:22 -0800 stbalbach http://www.metafilter.com/60891/Books-on-Video#1679883 Well, for a TV producer/writer it's not much of a stretch, is it? comment:www.metafilter.com,2007:site.60891-1679883 Fri, 04 May 2007 14:40:16 -0800 O9scar