AirBorne, apparently the "worlds-first online chain story" is a 30 day promotion, using social outreach to engage aspiring writers and fans of James Patterson alike. Personally, I don't think my writing style would lend itself to the thriller genre but full marks for the idea - which taps in to user generated content (UGC) megatrend exploding across the internet.
Consisting of email, web, twitter and facebook presence the promotion has already drummed up publicity on Fairfax and News Limited. Not to mention coverage on Radio National, ABC Radio Melbourne and Radio 2UE.
My take on it, I would have liked to seen a clear social media outreach strategy that engages one-to-one with the fans and writers, as this campaign fits perfectly with online writers and UGC based communities. Initial engagement appear low on Facebook and Twitter but the idle chatter suggests users and aspiring writers have warmed to the campaign. One writer/blogger even posted their entry - here.
According to Border's online Marketing Coordinator Jacqui Phillips, James Patterson will write the first and last of the 30 chapters with writers competing for the 28 spots in between. Judging will be completed by Random House who will also edit the winning authors content (insert legal grey area here...).
The first chapter is set to be released on the 20th March and the subsequent 29 chapters every day after. A similar release style to the Novel Idea campaign, a mobile optimised promotion in South Africa.
Customers will be able to download the chapters in an eBook format daily (or for a short time after last chapter is released). The book itself will not be published: only printed for competition purposes.
17 comments:
This is a really interesting campaign, how come i haven't heard about it anywhere?
Probably asking a bit much for me to write a chapter, but would be awesome to involve social networks somehow...
Hey its seriously a good one.. I enjoyed reading it and thanks for sharing this information.
Just stumbled onto this website - this was a really fun project. I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the writers. I wrote chapter 17, which turned out to be the one selected by James Patterson as his favourite (quite an honour!).
It's great to hear that people enjoyed reading it, because it certainly was a lot of fun from the other side, as well!
cheers
Sam Stephens
Congrats Sam,
Glad it was a good experience for you - would be interesting to see what impact it had on the readers... Look forward to seeing your next book at Borders ;)
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I didn't know that it's the first online chain story. Thanks a lot for sharing that valuable information.
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Great marketing campaign to promote the James Patterson campaign. Using email, web, Twitter and Facebook is a great way to promote the campaign
I've heard about this campaign before. I saw the post on twitter and Facebook. what a great way to market the product.
Your page is so fantastic!This was an really interesting campaign..I saw your post on the face book...
I saw the post before on Facebook. I think I liked the page and shared it to show my friends.
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I'm a great fan of James Patterson and when I heard of the campaign through Facebook I immediately bought the book. Good job on the marketing side.
They did a great job on the marketing side because the book was well publicized and the Facebook campaign was spot on.
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This is worth sharing to my writer friends, thanks.
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