Book tours—which can be expensive and time-consuming—are falling out of favor, and being replaced by\u00a0podcasts, film tours, blog tours, book videos, and book trailers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This article<\/a> in the Christian Science Monitor speculates as to whether the cumulative effect of a huge online presence will one day make the\u00a0face-to-face bookstore meeting between writer and reader obsolete.\u00a0I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. I’ve never met an author who enjoyed traipsing around the country from bookstore to bookstore. \u00a0<\/p>\n Thanks to Dan Poynter, whose ezine tipped us off to this one. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book tours—which can be expensive and time-consuming—are falling out of favor, and being replaced by\u00a0podcasts, film tours, blog tours, book videos, and book trailers.\u00a0 This article in the Christian Science Monitor speculates as to whether the cumulative effect of a huge online presence will one day make the\u00a0face-to-face bookstore meeting between writer and reader obsolete.\u00a0I\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":612,"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[608,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-1222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online-marketing","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-book-marketing","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40690,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/40690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}