Marketing Books

The most popular person to market a book would be Oprah. If you get on Oprah's list of the top ten books then most of America will buy your book and read it purely on the fact that oprah thinks it's a good book. I wish that I could write a book good enough for oprah to indorce. I have only seen a handful of books really be advertised out there. I believe the best way to have success with a book is to have a great marketing plan. You could write the best book in the world but if you don't have the means to advertise and get the knowledge out there to the people no one will ever know. There are so many books I have read that didn't really get the credit they deserved. Even when they did get the credit it was years after I had read the book. For example Memoirs of a Geisha, I read that book and thought this would be an amazing movie. Not more then three years ago they made the book into a movie and I was right, it was amazing. I was very impressed with how closely the movie followed along with the book. Until that movie came out I never saw any advertising for that book or anything like that. Once the movie came out all sorts of people started buying the book and reading it. I just think it's really ashame how books have to become movies before most people will even consider reading them. I typically will read the book first and then hope a movie will follow later. Back to the main point, what would be a great way to market a book not only to the public but also to a publisher.