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The authors of this article work to express how huge of a deal Oprah Winfrey is in our reading world. They point out how in the years that Oprah talked about her book club weekly on her show; all of the books were on America's top 150! This is a huge point to support my claim of influence that Oprah has over us. This article was extremely helpful also because there were a lot of graphs that showed the huge relationship between Oprah's announcement and ranking of book. The article gives many more stats and examples of influence and will be very useful to me in my paper.

In this article the authors give Oprah titles like "the saint of book sales" and the "O" effect. They talk about how the authors that Oprah has made successful owe their fame and success to Oprah. This article goes into how powerful Oprah's book club has been on the sales of books over the years. It will be helpful because of the statistics that it includes. The authors give a lot of credit to Oprah and this shows me how influential she really has been.

"This article gives a lot of background information on Oprah Winfrey and why she does the book club. It goes into detail about her past and the struggles she has overcome. Books were always her friends through the troubles and they mean so much to her. Because reading is a big part of Oprah's life she wanted to take her passion and share it with others and help other people by using books. There are many quotes from Oprah and useful background information that will be helpful when writing the paper.

This article is very interesting and useful for my research. It gives a week by week break down of the rankings of the books That Oprah has mentioned on her show. It shows how much it is still a factor in how America reads and what they buy. The 2007 list is very impressive just like when she began talking about books in the 90's. This will be a good thing that I can look at and draw some conclusions on about books and effects.

This article in the USA Today talks about the Kindle and IPhone. These devices have the ability to put books on the screen and able you to read any time. On the IPhone or IPod Touch the books come up on the screen. With the Kindle, it does the same thing as the IPhone, but it also reads to you.

This article brings up the cultural dynamic that Oprah has created. She has a huge following of every race and has brought many cultures together through reading. She has a large black and also white fan base in women. She has brought all of these people together with the love for reading good books. She is talked about again in this article as being a phenomenon. This is a good point that will be good for my paper because it is a different view. Not only does she send sales of books through the roof, she also brings groups of all different people together on one common ground.

This article shows another example of how Oprah has had huge influence over what America is reading. Two new authors like Jacquelyn Mitchard and Wally Lamb, were made famous because of Oprah. Mitchard's book went from 100,000 sales to 900,000 when Oprah talked about it on her show. The new authors are very appreciative and surprised at the effect that Oprah has had on their careers. This is helpful because it gives another view of why she is successful in controlling what our country is reading. She has made nobody authors into successful and famous just by talking about their book on her show.

This article talks about the new electronic Kindle and how Oprah "boosts" it on her show. She talked about how much she loved the gadget and had a representative from Amazon come and talk about it. This article will be useful to me because it shows her diverse ways in which she promotes reading. She has been very succesful with her book club and encouraging people to read the books she has found and now she promotes the Kindle as well. Oprah will prove to be powerful in this area pertaining to reading as well. She is all about encouraging America to love reading.

This article is about the "Oprah effect" and how much influence her book club has made on American reading habbits. It talks about how she has made reading popular again. This article has a lot of useful information about how exactly Oprah has effected American reading.