Oprah Will Resume Book Club On September 17--And No, It's Not FREEDOM
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Just under a year after selecting Uwem Akpan's SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, Oprah Winfrey is ready to pick another book for her audience to read. Newtonville Books blogged that they were notified by a Macmillan sales rep of the impending announcement, to air on September 17, when the Oprah-stickered edition will release. The selection is a hardcover with a list price of $28 (confirmed by online bookselling sites, which also list the title for blind pre-order). No one seems to be taking blind pre-orders for a ebook edition yet, however.

There was some speculation online that the selection could be Jonathan Franzen's FREEDOM (which also lists for $28), but it would appear not. We say this because Indigo lists the Canadian edition as also coming from Macmillan (with the same ISBNs as are listed on US bookselling sites) at a Canadian price of $29.50. But Jonathan Franzen has long been published by Harper Canada, which sells FREEDOM for $34.99 CA.

We were tempted to infer that it's a Farrar, Straus or Henry Holt book, since they price new titles in even dollars, whereas St. Martin's usually releases hardcovers at $x.99. But Walmart.com lists St. Martin's as the publisher, and the ISBN uses SMP's 312 ISBN prefix.
Which leaves further speculation and metadata searches inconclusive. (Some are tempted to wonder if they are moving up Nelson Mandela's CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF, but FSG is the US publisher and Doubleday has rights in Canada so you can cross that one off, too. It's always possible that Indigo has confused us with an incorrect entry, but their shopping cart is live for pre-orders, making that an unlikely possibility.)