Oprah-Winfrey

Oprah’s Free Ebook Offer Ends Today

Oprah is offering a free copy of Suze Orman’s Women & Money in PDF form.   This offer is only good until 8/7c of February 14th.   I guess this is Oprah’s Valentine to you.   Or part of her distance learning course to teach you to be a better you. Via   SBTB.

Oprah Removes a Challenged Children’s Book from Recommended Reads but Not Frey

Oprah Removes a Challenged Children’s Book from Recommended Reads but Not Frey

The AP has an interesting story today about Oprah’s recommended reading list. One of the titles that was featured as a “guaranteed page-turner from Oprah’s personal collection” was Forrest Carter’s The Education of Little Tree, a story set in the Great Depression about a young orphan who goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents and [...]

Oprah to Feature Showdown Between Goldman and Brown Families Over If I Did It

The Goldman’s were granted the rights to the OJ hypothetical confession and shopped it to Beaufort Books, a sometimes vanity press where authors contribute monetarily to the publication of their books. The Brown family is not happy about the publication of the book. Oprah has booked the two camps for a high charged Springer like [...]

James Frey May Have Lied But Oprah Has Bad Manners

James Frey May Have Lied But Oprah Has Bad Manners

Nan Talese, editor and publisher of James Frey’s fictional autobiography called A Million Little Pieces, struck back after enduring months of scorn and anger, much of it fueled by Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey featured James Frey on her show and was later appalled to find out that a great deal of the non fiction story [...]