Week 9, Assignment 2
I watched several book trailers on You Tube, including: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children; The Fall, An Autobiography of an Alter Ego; Super Sad True Love Story; Hounded; and Following Atticus. I think the book trailers that are professionally done, with actors, are quite effective and are successful in marketing the books, especially for nonfiction. Trailers with book authors as "talking heads" seem less successful, probably because they are less polished and appear less like movie trailers.
It's questionable whether trailers are useful for readers' advisory unless the librarian suggested specific book trailers that customers might watch to help them decide if they find the books appealing.