In the end, my novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, became the first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club.

最终，我的小说《the deep end of the ocean》成为第一本Oprah's Book Club（ “奥普拉读书俱乐部”节目创办于1996年，最初六年，每月推荐作品一部，供观众阅读讨论，每本都成了畅销书。

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The book of the Month club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's book club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6，是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

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It's huge. There is no more powerful marketing force in contemporary fiction than Oprah's Book Club.

这很可观，就现代小说而言,没有能与奥普拉的书友会相提并论的营销力量。

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She's thinking about putting it on her book club, and--if any of you know anything getting on Oprah's Book Club makes your sales for the next 20 years.

她在考虑把你的书放到她的书友会里，如果你们中有人知道一些关于现代文学的事情的话,进入奥普拉书友会的书在,以后的二十年都会有好销路的。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The Book of the Month Club was a mail-order book club that started in 1926 and it became an incredibly powerful engine for selling books, just as Oprah's Book Club is today.

月读书友会是一个创立于1926年的邮购书友会6,是图书销售的强大引擎，正如今天的奥普拉书友会一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Until the creation of Oprah's Book Club, few would have associated literature with daytime television.

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Instead, it's compatible with "Mobipocket" books, a digital format that offers more than 100, 000 titles, though many are noncopyrighted classics, romance novels and science fiction--hardly the material recommended by Oprah's book club.

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