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How to use short-form video to market your book

BookBub's guide compares TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts for book marketing - who actually uses each platform, how discovery differs, and why perfectionism kills more campaigns than bad lighting.

The practical advice is to start with low-lift clips: character intros, cover reveals, reading a paragraph. For authors already allergic to video, it's a permission slip to experiment in public without a studio budget.

(Shortened and summarised to avoid devaluing the source)
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