What are the best books on social media marketing?

[Arjun Anand]

Hi, The one book i enjoyed reading most was socialnomics. Its particularly interesting because of all the case studies, examples and statistics it provides on Social Media and popular websites. Another interesting read is "Marketing to the Social Web" Larry Weber. Again, this book provides some great examples as well.

Radically Transparent is also a great book, however its limited to Online reputation management.

Internet Marketing Strategy, Implementation and Practice by Dave Chaffey is great but its more like a book you would read in university. Having said that the book has some amazing case studies, do it your self exercises etc.

I agree with the previous answer, that you may not want to buy all these books because social media is changing so quickly and what is important today may not be important the next day. However, if you are have a hand help reading device like the kindle, digital books (EBook) don't cost very much (avg $15-$20) and most books are just 200 or so pages which should take you a couple of days to read.

You may also want to read Blogs, there are quite a few blogs dedicated to Social Media like Mashable.com, Insidefacebook.com, socialnomics.net etc and they are free.

Thanks

Arjun Anand
http://www.veristlabs.com
Online Reputation Management Solutions