Halloween Horror
October Display: Featuring Horror Books that have been Adapted into a TV Series of Movie
This display can
run all October or anytime during year where there is a popular release of an
upcoming season of a horror TV series or movie, for example the Walking
Dead. If the latest season release date on DVD is in October, the display will
mainly consist of The Walking Dead promotion release information (the day it
will be available at the library and display art as well as other horror books
and their movie/TV series counterpart all in one bundle. With these bundles,
patrons have the opportunity to check out the whole bundle or choose if they
would like just the DVD or the book. The goal is to promote an upcoming release
while also promoting other items that are in the horror genre that patrons may
enjoy. Promoting the horror genre in October is ideal because most patrons are
starting to watch and read more of these items because of Halloween. The
display will make items in this genre easy to find and also help decorate the
library for Halloween.
I love the idea of bundling books and DVDs together! It's amazing to me how many adults don't know that The Walking Dead came from a GN, but how many teens do, and request the GN rather than the DVDs. Always great to expose patrons to different formats and let them make their choice!
ReplyDeleteI did an "As Seen On TV" display one time, that had books that had been made into TV shows, but I've never thought about bundling a movie and book together. I think it would be fun to do something like that, and do a book vs. movie smackdown. Even though I'm pretty sure that 99% of the time the book would win, it would be fun to see peoples' opinions.
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