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Oprah the Book Fairy: The Astounding Success of the Oprah Book Club

You can bet publisher's are going to miss Oprah as much as her viewers when her long-running show wraps up next week. Nielsen has just released an accounting of the impact of Oprah's Book Club on the sales of the books chosen. In the last ten years she has sold over 22 million copies of books bearing her Book Club branding.Her full impact on book sales is hard to quantify but there are some amazing concrete numbers regarding how many books bearing the Oprah Book Club selection imprint have sold. For example, the Oprah trade paperback edition of  A Million...

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Jay Z Talks Books with Oprah

Photo by Ron Howard The October issue of O magazine, which hits the newsstands next week, features an interview with Jay Z.One of the topics covered in Oprah's interview is a look into Jay Z's reading life.Here are the 6 books featured in the slideshow; "Books That Made a Difference to Jay-Z" now up on the O Magazine website.The Seat of the Soul by Gary ZukavThe Celestine Prophecy by James RedfieldHomer's The OdysseyOutliers by Malcolm GladwellPurple Cow by Seth Godin andNigger by Dick GregoryEach includes commentary by Jay Z.Here's the "sneak peak" of the interviewPreviously on Book Patrol:Bill Maher's Gift...

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