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Thank you We sneak in Bestsellers Celebrities I'll ashman Is

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there something that can boost the popularity of the book

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So a book recommendation from a very famous person pretty

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much the person who's guaranteed to you that is oprah

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winfrey oprah's book club makes an instant bestseller out of

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any book that she select and that's because when she

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had a television show she had millions of people watching

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along She still has millions upon millions of people who

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are ready to buy anything that she recommends and the

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crazy thing about oprah is that she can sell any

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book in any genre so she can sell a william

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faulkner novel but she can also sell the self help

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book and that's Why lots of people who have worked

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with her have become very famous dr phil dr oz

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they sell tons of books because people believe in the

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power of that recommendation Any other celebrity sell as many

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books is oprah I don't think they're any other media

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celebrities who khun sell books the way that she does

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but you do sometimes notice if the president is reading

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a book people might buy it or if a lot

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of celebrities they're talking about like a diet book A

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lot of people will buy it so it depends Genre

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by genre What famous people are reading eyes They're something

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that can boost the popularity of a book Does any 00:01:31.786 --> [endTime] other celebrity sell as many books is oprah

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