Oprah’s Book Club Starts a New Chapter with Apple
September 23 2019 - 8:40AM
Business Wire
Powerful stories to be celebrated on Apple Books; first author
interview premieres exclusively on Apple TV+ November 1
Apple® and Oprah Winfrey today announced Oprah’s Book Club will
connect a community of readers worldwide to stories that truly
matter by today’s most thought-provoking authors. Winfrey, the
esteemed producer, actress, talk show host, philanthropist and CEO
of OWN, will partner with Apple to build a vibrant, global book
club that has the power to both transport and transform people —
turning every book into an opportunity for self-discovery, and
bringing the world together through reading.
Winfrey’s first book selection is “The Water Dancer” by
Ta-Nehisi Coates, available for pre-order now on Apple Books
(https://apple.co/OprahsBookClub) in both ebook and audiobook
formats, and debuting tomorrow.1 Winfrey will interview Coates for
the first installment of her new exclusive Apple TV+ series,
“Oprah’s Book Club,” premiering November 1. A new episode will be
available every two months. For every Oprah’s Book Club selection
sold on Apple Books, Apple will make a contribution to the American
Library Association to support local libraries, fund programs that
give access to everyone and create lifelong readers at an early
age.
“Few people in the world can bring us together like Oprah, whose
compassion and grace celebrating the power of books are unmatched,”
said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “It’s our honor to provide a new
platform for Oprah’s Book Club and support the American Library
Association in opening hearts and minds to the joy of reading.”
“I am who I am today because of the experience of learning to
read at an early age. Reading opened up a whole world for me beyond
the red dirt road and my grandmother’s porch in Mississippi,” said
Oprah Winfrey. “I want to do that for everybody. And the
opportunity to do this with Apple, to speak to people all over the
world about the pleasures, the excitement, the tension, the drama
that a good book can bring you… I don't know what's better than
that.”
Readers around the world can easily discover Oprah’s Book Club
through the Apple Books app, where they can learn more about the
latest selection and browse previous selections in a beautiful and
immersive experience. With the new Reading Goals feature in Apple
Books, readers can make reading a daily habit more easily.
Winfrey will interview the authors of her book club selections
at various locations. Her conversation with Coates about “The Water
Dancer” will be filmed in front of a live audience at Apple
Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. next month. Audiences around
the world can watch “Oprah’s Book Club” starting November 1
exclusively on Apple TV+, Apple’s all-original video subscription
service and home for the world’s greatest storytellers.
1The availability of the Oprah’s Book Club page and selections
will vary based on publisher rights, translations and available
format.
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of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
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