Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

The prevalence of video content consumption prompted book publishers to adopt this medium as a way to advertise books, through so called book trailers. Beyond advertising, a book’s video presentation may provide information to potential future readers so they can make an informed choice on whether consider reading it or not. StoryBook is a software tool that, through a process of knowledge extraction and media collection, supports the semi-automatic creation of multimedia trailers of books. A proof-of-concept of the tool and its user interface has been built and is available online.