"Until recently, the opportunity for using the web's multimedia capabilities for book promotion has been limited. Now that is changing. With the advent of services like VidLit, which produces short, humorous, animated Flash films about books, authors have a new way to reach online readers. Because of the viral quality of online videos, some writers are finding success at the end of the broadband pipe. Pictured above: a VidLit for "Yiddish with Dick and Jane", a book by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman."
--Wired
