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'Today' Premieres Monthly Book Club

Today the NBC show "Today" debuted its monthly book club, which "will include both fiction and nonfiction, newly released titles and classics," writes Julie Bosman. It's "a happy development for a publishing industry frustrated by years of shrinking television time devoted to authors," she writes. "Yet a 'Today' book club would lack the passionate endorsement of a single person as beloved as Ms. Winfrey, one of the factors that publishers have cited as a key component to the success of Oprah’s Book Club."

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