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"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 gives good information about the about of books that Oprah Winfrey has made successful. The 48 books that she promoted, at least 650,000 copies of each were sold. The point of this article was to talk about how crazy it is that people can be influenced so greatly by Oprah. It is helpful to me with my paper because it shows how much of a powerful person Oprah is and it cannot be denied! She is undeniably the most influential person on TV.

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.