Book Teasers
Book trailers, a fun marketing tool, have been making the rounds online for the last several years. These mini commercials, similar to movie trailers, can be found on most of the social networking sites, some author web sites, and they're even streamed to cell phones.
Book videos range from funny to tacky (subjective I'm sure). I've seen quite a few book teasers and some of them are actually pretty good. In fact, in 2006 The Book Video Awards was launched to recognize the best in book videos.
One of my favorite sites to view book teasers at is COS Productions (They claim to have invented the "book trailer" concept.). Others include Book Trailers.net, Romance Novel TV, and VidLit (for children).
You can also find interviews of some popular authors at Book Video TV and Book Shorts. I really love these!
Here's a clip of one of the 2006 book video award winners Stuart: A Life Backwards.