The Oprah effect or lack there of...

I'm just wondering out loud here, but has any one checked to see if after Oprah waves her magic wand and blesses a book do the publishers then scramble to acquire and publish five-hundred books that smell, read, and feel like the blessed one?

And let me premise my next question with this -- I love Oprah, I really do - but do you think that if Oprah paid more attention to African-American authors then publishing would too?

Do you think the publishing massa's - I mean masters are sitting around