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the power of Oprah
Nobody sells books like Oprah Winfrey. The only thing keeping her from running the best-seller list is Harry Potter.
Today, Oprah announced her latest Book Club selection: “THE ROAD” by Cormac McCarthy. I just checked the bestsellers on Amazon.com. The final Harry Potter book, “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS (Book 7)” is hanging in there at the top spot. Talk about buzz, that book doesn’t come out until July 21.
“THE ROAD” is already at #2 on the list. It rode the Oprah rocket straight up the chart today after the announcement. Oprah also gave a plug to her previous selection on her program today, “THE MEASURE OF A MAN: A SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY” by Sidney Poitier. There it is at #3.
As if that were not enough Oprah Power. The #4 book on the Amazon chart is another book that Oprah featured on her show, “THE SECRET.”
Oprah has such star power that she was able to convince the notoriously reclusive McCarthy to appear on a future program. When he does, it will be his first television interview, EVER. That’s OPRAH POWER.
Oprah, Oprah, Oprah. Last November I was chatting with Studs Terkel in his dressing room at the Schuster Center before he took the stage to accept the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
We talked about a lot of things that night; baseball, boxing, politics, music. Studs brought up Oprah. He described meeting her when she had just gotten started in Chicago. He said that when an author’s book is chosen for her Book Club that he calls it “the Million Dollar (blank).”
Fill in the blank. You’ll never guess the word that Studs Terkel used.
Have you ever bought a book because Oprah picked it?
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By spuggy
March 30, 2007 10:53 AM | Link to this
I never watch her show but I did buy a couple of books that she had promoted on the book segment of her show. A classic and a contemporary, both of which I enjoyed very much.